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Wednesday, 29 December 2010

The Independent Newspaper: "Eighty Giant Furnaces"

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"...With further capacity for 1.2 million tonnes of waste-burning already planned, the industry is not having it all its own way – despite the backing of business leaders including the CBI, which earlier this year urged councils to bury their objections to building new incinerators."

"Vehement opposition comes from environmentalists, who claim that incinerators contribute to greenhouse gases and discourage councils from meeting more ambitious recycling goals.

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(Courtesy: 'Brent Cross Coalition')