Greenpeace today condemned the Evening Standard for inaccurate journalism after a front page story about Greenpeace 'creating a waste peril' was shown to be untrue.
The newspaper had claimed that the Greenpeace occupation of Edmonton incinerator had caused a build up of body tissue and needles at London hospitals and threatened to cause a health hazard. In fact Edmonton incinerator does not take body tissue or needles and there is no crisis in London's hospital waste. For example, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital had its medical waste taken away this morning by its regular contractor.
Matthew Spencer, Campaigns Manager at Greenpeace in the UK, said:
"The Evening Standard has got it totally wrong on clinical waste. There is no build up of waste at hospitals and clinical wastes can be disposed of at alternative sites from Edmonton if necessary. The inability of the Evening Standard to get even the most basic facts right - like the types of clinical waste burned at Edmonton - is extremely alarming."
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