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Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, has joined the calls to stop the expansion of Edmonton Incinerator. Speaking at the 'Meet the Mayor Event at the IMAX Cinema near Waterloo, he said that there should be no expansion of incineration capacity in London and that the city should achieve 40% recycling rates so that incineration was unnecessary.

Greenpeace rejected claims by London Waste Ltd that the action at Edmonton incinerator resulted in pile ups of domestic and clinical waste.

Edmonton incinerator stopped burning rubbish and Greenpeace volunteers occupied the chimney. Volunteers capped one of the two flue outlets. The capping is intended to prevent the incinerator from restarting operations now that the furnace has been closed and involves sealing the flue with planks slotted into a metal frame. Other Greenpeace volunteers occupied the mechanical grabs inside the plant in order to prevent rubbish being loaded into the furnace.

Greenpeace ( 9/10/00) invaded Edmonton waste incinerator in North London - Britain's biggest rubbish incinerator plant. Sixty-five Greenpeace volunteers, including core teams of skilled climbers, occupied key areas of the plant in a bid to stop it burning household waste. The volunteers intended to close the incinerator completely to prevent it emitting a cocktail of chemicals that can cause cancers and asthma attacks.