Spot the difference in Bloomfields reports!!

For Surrrey CC
Health Risks of Waste Management Facilities Dr Mark Broomfield, Enviros Consulting Ltd
Surrey County Council’s Environment & Economy Select Committee
Scrutiny Review of Waste: Waste Treatment Technologies
Memorandum Dr. Mark Broomfield Technical Director Enviros Consulting

For Viridor
The environmental and health impacts of Energy from Waste, the myths and the truth?
T.D. HAMMOND* AND Dr. D.M. BROOMFIELD** Enviros Consulting Limited, Shrewsbury, England

References ..The UK Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (2004) Review of the Environmental and Health Effects of Waste Management: municipal solid waste and similar wastes, Enviros Consulting Ltd with Birmingham University and others, May 2004.

Viridor proposal would turn Cardiff into South Wales waste capital

Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:38 pm Posted in Campaign Updates, News, South East Wales FOE Waste Network,

LetsRecycle reports that:

Plans to develop a new incinerator in Cardiff have come under fire because of concerns it will not be limited to burning non-recyclable waste. Waste firm Viridor (Pennon Group)has been selected as preferred partner by the owners of a site near the Cardiff docks to take forward the £150 million project to build a “waste management and resource recovery facility”.

According to a letter from Cardiff Friends of the Earth local people are concerned that the proposed facility would be over-sized, as 350,000 tonnes per annum equates to some 2.5 times the amount of residual waste Cardiff produces. Continue Reading “Viridor proposal would turn Cardiff into South Wales waste capital” »

Incinerator fighters won't stand idly by
WalesOnline, United Kingdom - 20 Oct 2008
Councillors for Splott and Tremorfa in Cardiff have been gathering support against plans by Viridor Waste Management to build the waste-burning incinerator ...

Row over Viridor Waste Management Incinerator in Exeter

Local authority row over Exeter incinerator - As proposed in Cardiff Viridor Waste Management is Devon's waste management contractor and the company hoping to develop the Exeter incinerator..

17-07-2007
Local authorities in Devon have become embroiled in a row over proposals for a new incinerator in Exeter. Councillors in Exeter are meeting today to discuss their concerns that Devon county council's intention to build an energy-from-waste facility on the Marsh Barton Industrial estate, south of the city……............ In denouncing the project, Cllr Connel Boyle, lead councillor for the environment and leisure raised his concerns about dioxin emissions. The city council has claimed that waste incinerators in the UK account for "80% of dioxin emissions in the UK (from regulated emissions)", and therefore needed to be monitored more closel