How waste burning affects UK’s poorest neighbourhoods 

The waste incinerator in New Cross in London only burn the waste at night but insist that it's safe, in the middle of a heavily built up area.

Let's optimize our consumption, let's recycle more and there will be less incinerators. The waste has to go somewhere unfortunately....

From my experience you are wrong that councils have some incentive to use incinerators. For councils the incentive is always to recycle, they either make money from selling it on or the disposal charges for recycling are far cheaper than incineration. Recycling has far more value than waste. But when there is waste, it has to be taken somewhere. In addition there is a valid argument for incineration to be considered, that at the moment we send waste abroad, and will need to send more as waste increases as projected, and that produces far more carbon than incinerating at home. Its also often shipped to poorer countries, and not often in far worse inceinerators with worse filters. A fair analysis should consider this point. The focus should not be on councils but heavily on the government. The government can pass legislation to reduce the amount of waste produced in this country. If it does then maybe we won't need new incinerators. If it doesn't then we do. The governement is not moving fast enough and has in fact rejected proposals, that will reduce waste, like the fast fashion tax. Campaign against them.

What is the correlation with cancer levels in Edmonton?

All these ppl with their “green” ideas have no idea what waste management looks like on a larger scale. It’s easy to say “make super expensive environmentally friendly incinerators” but don’t understand how much waste there is, that it takes time to burn and cool, and you’d need millions of machines. Those machines are a burden on the power grid. Power is more expensive bc of politicians this year… For one family to have all their waste incinerated by a fancy retort for a month would cost a few hundred dollars.

From my experience you are wrong that councils have some incentive to use incinerators

The smokestacks look like cigarettes! LMAO!

The recycling in London, and even in the rest of UK, is horrible. Go to Italy, France or Germany, you’ll see the difference. There they recycle, here they pretend to recycle and throw the rubbish in incinerator. In other countries you see a real interest in recycling: paper, glass, metals, food scraps and general waste have their own bin. They have for each one of them a bin on every street, and if street is to long, they have several of them, so collecting them is really easy and practical- you can’t have all of them for each house. So, if this can be done in these countries, the question is why is this not happening here too? The disinterested political class must be forced to take action, otherwise nothing will ever change.

Throw the govenment in them.

Stop producing so much packaging.

Humans cut trees to write save the earth

all I'm hearing is dont build factories in poor communities

Waste incineration is unsustainable! How much organic material - which can be treated with biological methods - is found in domestic and commercial waste? In all countries, most household waste originates from plants, animals and micro-organisms (around 70%) and should be called "renewable organic material". All thermal methods for handling inorganic material are unsustainable because they kill all microorganisms and create emissions that negatively affect the environment, health, climate and economy. Tell residents that waste incineration is very good for business economics, but citizens pay several times over: 1) for collection and transport 2) for administration 3) for combustion 4) for doctor visits due to emissions into the environment 5) for food grown using agrochemicals because waste incineration prevents the reuse of the chemical elements essential for crop production. These are hydrogen (H), carbon (C), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potash (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S), chloride (Cl ), iron (Fe), boron (B), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), cuprum (Cu), and molybdenum (Mo). Stimulating elements are cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), vanadium (V), strontium (Sn), lithium (Li), fluorine (F), selenium (Se), silicon (Si), etc. Carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen the plants get from carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). Other elements are called plant nutrients that must be present in the soil. Why do today's decision-makers and policy-makers lack basic knowledge about the conditions for life and human biological foundations? Waste incineration started in Sweden in Malmö when1997 SYSAV AB received permission from the environmental court to build two waste incinerators. NOTE!

Greenpeace: Never satisfied with any solution, everything is another problem.

Instead of incinerator use gasification instead zeero pollution an 150 yr old technology it is a wonder why they don't use it his instead of incinerator.

Having worked in the waste industry for nearly 23 years what this programme hasn't explained in my experience and knowledge is that these poorer areas are also not very good at recycling or sorting there waste appropriately so the argument is a little in balanced. There is a place for incineration but a wide and bigger future for recycling. Refuse is a renewable energy as we all produce it one way or another if people dont/can't recycle we have to do something with it so why not use it as fuel??