Pollution and health impacts of incinerating resources
The current UK Government, some local authorities and incinerator operators have recently embarked on a campaign to hoodwink the public into believing that waste incineration is somehow a green option for waste management.
Words such as "renewable", "recycling" and "sustainable", are being used by the authorities and the industry to describe the burning of mixed streams of municipal waste. Incinerators have been renamed and transformed into benign sounding "Energy from Waste" plants, the toxic ash they produce is "recycled" into road aggregate and burning discarded products and packaging is no longer a method of waste disposal but, according to the Government, a renewable energy source.
