Waste company withdraws plan for landfill at failed incinerator site

“we didnt need one anyway and glad its not being done!!!”

“Yes totally agree with WinstonSmith and well done to all those concerned regarding the fight. The Tory Council sold us out well and truly. The large cranes are already in place and what an eye sore it is now and will be when the chimney has been erected.

When will the roads be strengthened to take the extra traffic and will the Council monitor the extra fumes from lorries ie pollution levels especially as there is a school next door to the main road.”

“Did anyone else see the recent science TV programme 'Bang Goes the Theory' showing how to extract DIESEL, PETROL and AERO FUEL from old plastic bottles? Not just a tiny bit - but 800 litres for every ton of plastic???

http://tinyurl.com/cdvr9bx

It is already in full swing in Ireland and SITA have announced they will be building 10 processing plants in the UK to take our plastic waste and turn it into FUEL

How? Pyrolysis, basically. One of the alternative waste treatment systems suggested by many in place of the burn-everything incinerator chosen by our beloved representatives.

Now, who else do you think already knows about this money making scheme? Perhaps a company that has just been given an almost endless supply of end of life plastics en route to their incinerator?

Might it just be that, before long, an additional building springs up near the incinerator to create liquid fuels from our spent plastics? They are an energy company after all - not a waste disposal company.

Might it be that Plymouth Council (Tory led) in it's short-sighted simpleton manner (with a heavy bias towards putting industry before people) might have just given away what remained of the family jewels whilst a good many 'ordinary people' were trying to inform them that waste is so VALUABLE that companies are now 'mining' old waste sites for raw materials such as plastic and GOLD. It's all out there on the internet for you to verify!

We should be grateful that MVV will take all this nasty waste from us (and from many, many miles around) and for a mere £60 million profit every year. As a special reward, they can now reclaim all the precious metals and turn the plastics into fuel as well.

Who knows, PCC will probably enter into a contract to buy fuel exclusively from them or force Plymouth citizens to do so!

Ah, the true face of business!”

“Viridor can't donate the quarry to the local community as a nature reserve because they don't own the land.....

....but they were going to build an incinerator and landfill site on it.....

Well whoever owns it should now make sure a situation like this can never occur again and that the area is preserved and left alone by greedy companies.”

“Well said Winstonsmith0!!

Plymouth council should have listened to those they claim to represent.

Excellent news about NEQ - lets hope Devon Council stick to their guns when the appeal by MVV for Whitecleaves Quarry as an IBA processing site takes place.

Will be interesting to see what happens then....after all you can't have an incinerator without a site for the ash to be processed......and if it has to travel too far to one then makes a mockery (which it already is) of the whole 'best environmental option'. But of course our council won't then stop MVV in its tracks..no course not..MVV will plead that too much money has been spent and how the people of Plymouth will have to pay.....well folks if you believe that go away and do some research on some figures.....they really don't all add up but those who voted for this just couldn't be bothered to look futher than the end of their turned up noses.

About time everyone realised that incinerators are not the best technology available and there is already not enough waste to feed them. Landfill is still needed and you can bet your last penny that waste you think is being recycled will be diverted to the incinerator.

Wait and see.....”

“Congratulations to all concerned in stopping this ridiculous application.

Local people have made it known that they will not tolerate either an incinerator or a landfill in New England Quarry just as Buckfastleigh people have made it clear they do not want the potentially very harmful by-products from incineration.

Devon County Councillors appear to have both listened to and supported their constituents in this respect and the Council has rejected all of these applications. That is the way it is meant to work. Councils work for the people - not wealthy businesses.

Not so in Plymouth where work is now well underway for an incinerator that will welcome rubbish from all over Devon and (in my opinion) within a few years as waste continues to reduce through necessity, perhaps from other countries just as German-run incinerators already do in their home country. After all, it is already 50% larger than it needed to be and empty space does not create big profits for MVV. Devonport is already perfectly sited to accept both sea and rail deliveries.

What a shame Plymouth's Tory council did not represent its own people in the slightest.

Ah, the true face of business!”

“Selfish NIMBYs”