Suffolk is running out of landfill, lanfill taxes are going up and more waste needs to be diverted from this stream. The real answer is recycling, waste minimisation and reuse but the more economic option for the Council seeems to be incineration. Incineration or energy from waste as they call it has a mixed and emotive record. Europe sees it as green, the UK greens and elsewhere see it as polluting. Technology has moved on but fine particulates are still emitted and resources that could be recycled are lost and ash still has to be landfilled.
Residents in Sproughton are quite rightly concerned about the close proximity to their village of this use due to potential emissions and traffic if the old sugar beet factory site was selected.
I know that Kathy Pollard is representing them well as their Lib Dem County Councillor. I just hope the Conservative administration listens carefully to residents issues and it selects wisely the site and the technology to be used.
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