To Burn or Not To burn

Today the Argus published the first artist illustrations of the proposed waste incinerator to be sited in Newhaven together with the news that the Environment Agency is seeking the closure of the two remaining landfill sites a year earlier than the councils and their waste contractors had expected.

With no new landfill capacity in sight and with the incinerator still at the planning stage, Brighton and East Sussex may well have to export their waste at great expense to Northamptonshire.

This is no surprise since the landfill site contractors and their council clients have been trying to squeeze more and more capacity out of existing landfill sites for many years.

The Environment Agency has had enough, because of increased ground water pollution.

I will return to this issue in greater detail another time.