The Incinerator Buster tool kit includes everything you need to oppose a proposal to build an incinerator in your area. The download is a zip file, inlcuding a pdf version with directions for filling in the template document and an editable word template. Use this template to create a peoples waste strategy for your area.
Alternatively you can download separate elements of the toolkit:
Under the government's proposed Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act, the information contained in this briefing would be illegal. The proposed Act contains measures to stop the publication of information on nuclear technologies, nuclear sites and the transport of nuclear materials. Greenpeace, however, believes that people have a right to know about the nuclear industry and the risks that it imposes on them. We will continue to publish information that is in the public interest whether or not the Act becomes law.
Emissions from modern incinerators pose no health risk Anyone who says modern incinerators are safe is either misinformed or lying.
Everyone knows the chemicals created and released during incineration process are dangerous. No one knows if the volumes discharged even from the most modern incinerators are safe.
Nuclear reprocessing was first carried out to separate plutonium from 'spent' nuclear reactor fuel - for nuclear weapons. All countries with plutonium-based nuclear weapons have reprocessing facilities.
Plutonium is the most highly prized material for making nuclear weapons. It has only existed in the environment since the first atomic bomb was detonated in the US in 1945, and does not occur naturally. It was in fact a US plutonium bomb that killed more than 50,000 people in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.
Radioactive substances are produced at every stage of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining, to the operation of reactors, to the reprocessing of spent fuel. These include plutonium, caesium, ruthenium, iodine, krypton and strontium. Most will remain hazardous for thousands, and in some cases millions, of years. Despite decades of discussion, the nuclear industry has failed to come up with a safe way of dealing with them. So, as they are released into the environment, building up in the food chain and human bodies, they leave a poisonous legacy to future generations.
Nuclear reprocessing involves chopping up the 'spent'nuclear fuel from a nuclear reactor, then dissolving it in nitric acid. The process was designed to separate out plutonium from the other radioactive products in waste fuel - for the production of nuclear weapons and for use in (now abandoned) fast-breeder reactors.
Nuclear reactors and reprocessing plants were first designed and created to produce plutonium - for nuclear weapons. Electricity was simply a by-product. The first nuclear power station in Britain was built at Calder Hall in Cumbria, in 1953. And when this was connected to the national grid in 1956, it became the first nuclear power station in the world to provide electricity.
