The Basingstoke incinerator - poisoning food, risking health

Publication date: June 2002

Summary
The Basingstoke incinerator, which is due to completed in October, will burn ninety thousand tonnes of household rubbish every year. It is one of three currently under construction in Hampshire and will burn municipal waste from the north of the county. It is owned and will be operated by French waste disposal company Onyx.

If allowed to start burning rubbish, the Basingstoke incinerator will release on daily basis chemicals that have been linked to cancers, birth defects, heart disease and breathing illnesses.