Below are the comments that have been left by people signing the petition.
To Cornwall Council - Just do it properly for once.
Rose, Cornwall
People power is the only way to stop this beast from being built in Cornwall, if they build one more will follow. It's all about money as usual
Sheila, St. Austell. Cornwall
Get with the programme and SAVE the planet. Ideas like these will be an embarrassment to future generations
mshel, London
no no no....dudes
shelley,
Cornwall Councillors must stick with their original decision to refuse this planning application and not bow to economics. The health of every citizen living or visiting Cornwall should be more important.
Glenys, St.Agnes, Cornwall
Yes to a real policy to reduce waste. Yes to a better solution to waste management than a smoky, smelly, environment-deadly incinerator..as a anaerobic digestion system. Please make everything to keep Cornwall as lovely as it is now!
Amelie,
Everyone has the right to breath clean air and not to be poisoned by toxins which seep into the ground and water and ultimately into the food chain, we must seek safer alternatives.
Sylvia,
Grrrrrrr!!
Daryl, Falmouth
A huge incinerator at great expense with potentially dangerous and toxic outomes is not a strategic answer for Conrwall. No business case.
Chris,
We must move forward with more modern techniques other than just burning stuff.
Aaron,
I object to the incinerator plant on the grounds that it will further deterioriate the surrounding fertile land,up to the point of no return,when we would have to move the growth else where.Anaerobic digestion/processing of organic material would close the loop,produce energy and fertilise the land perpetually.
Tom, London
This is not the answer to Cornwall's waste problem. Let's think sustainable and sensitble here. There is a bigger pcture
Lindsay, Truro
Please, think about yours children, not profit you can make, there is not such a thing that may controll dioxins flowing of any high or not incinerator chimney. You are going to contaminate thousand of miles
Jendrek, Brighton, East Sussex
Cornwall has become well known for the quality of its local produce, if anything happens to contaminate that produce not only will local suppliers go out of business but food tourism will suffer as well, affecting many more businesses in the county.
N, Penryn
How many people realize that the high temperatures required for incineration mean that a lot of oil is used to burn the waste? The waste companies will want to maximize the amount of waste so there will be minimal recycling and certainly no RE-USE
Liz, Cornwall
As a member of Cornwall Towns Association we are working hard to help the people of Scredda(Wainhomes houses)& Davidstow(windfarm) to try to get Cornwall Council etc to listen to what the people want. Perhaps you could contact prospective candidates and get their support and views before they get into power.
Bryan, Fowey
What an environmental and economic disaster for Cornwall this would be!
Linda, North Cornwall
I am worried about dioxin contamination of milk produced around the proposed incinerator. Dioxins have been linked to cancer and I haven't seen any evidence produced by SITA or Cornwall Council that the incinerator will not produce dioxins or pose other health risks. I believe we should not take the risk of building the incinerator unless it is proven that it will not raise incidence of cancer in Cornwall.
Isabel, Liskeard
I used to research dioxins. Emissions are lower with new types of incinerators, but what happens to them when they are old and not serviced or inspected? And other less well known chemicals may turn up and be burned - it is too tempting for operators.
Ann, Sussex
The local council should be the arbiter of what is safe to be built in their community. If the Secretary of State approves this application it will be a travesty. Incineration creates toxic emissions and waste products. Organic waste should be fed into bio-digestors, and non-organic waste recycled.
Alex, London
When natural processes are available for the treatment of waste materials, as they are in this case, they should be used, because they will return nutrients to the environment.
Corneilius, London
If the incinerator has to be in cornwall, why not put it where the old explosives depot was on Newlyn East downs. Haul road already there and only 2 mins from the main road. No need to go through any villages, although this site wouldnt line anyones pocketsand therefore would probably not even get considdered.
Austin, St. Dennis
Our country side is what brings a lot of out tourisome to cornwall, what hope is there for cornwall if you start putting incinerators every where all willy nilly..
Tracy, Helston
I have 2 young children and really dont want a carsnagenic incinerator in our back yard, also going to knock thousands off the value of our house , as if things arnt hard enough at the moment. must be alternatives !
Simon, St Columb Road
Although i don't live in Cornwall i do surf there on a very regular basis and think this incinerator is a foul idea for both the pollution it will churn out and the eyesore it will create on this beautiful landscape.
Christine, Brighton and Hove
I think it would be the worst thing that could happen to Cornwall to build this incinerator.
Richard, Bugle
No incinerator they are not safe !!!!
Jane, Newquay
I did not just buy a house for this to be on my doorstep
Marc, London
The entire clay area is as important culturally as a site of Cornish Heritage as it is an enviromentally fragile balance between imposed industry and evolved landscape.
Jonathan, Penzance
Smoking has been banned in public areas for health reasons to the passive smoker surely an incinerator is far worse?! There are other means of reducing excess waste. Big business should be taxed for producing so much waste - they are responsible for it. The Government needs to take a stance on this major problem. Neither incineration nor landfill is the answer.
Adele, Gtr. Manchester
The continuing lack of vision on the part of some elected members is disappointing. They need to understand the real costs of their decisions go beyond just balancing the Council's budgets. We can't keep throwing waste into holes in the ground, but a short-term solution of simply burning it is not the answer and will not make the problem go away.
Tim, St Austel
This is horrible!!!!! its also disgusting dont u dare do it!!! cornwall cannot afford the longterm costs to the economy! isnt it already one of the poorest places in the EU?! what are u thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elisha,
Is this progress? Burning waste is not the only solution where are the alternatives? What about Anaerobic digestion or other green alternatives?
Neil, Truro
Please stop the pollution and use clean methods to get rid of waste.
Paul,
PROTECT OUR PLANET :) THANK YOU
Marybela, Charlotte
The health of people, animals, vegetation and the general environment is paramount and must be safe-guarded at all costs. An incinerator should NEVER have been considered. If this poisoning of Cornwall does go ahead, who will accept responsibility down the line when the toxic emissions have done the damage? Who will pay compensation? Or will the deny game be played and lack of proof be given as a reason - as in Agent Orange and cigarette smoking etc.?
Jane, New Zealand
There has to be a better way
Shiona, Redruth
So apart from money for SITA, what good is this going to do for us in Cornwall ? Maybe turn it into the worlds biggest slag heap when in fact this is the most beautiful county in the UK. Or to put it another way if we want our children in future generations to suffer with Asthma then lets go right ahead !! This is not what we want in Cornwall at all.
Simon, Redruth, Cornwall
Crazy crazy things afoot we will have to take severe action if we want our children to be able to live in harmony and health on this planet in the future... drastic action must be taken....
Mark, W Midlands
This incinerator is out of date, the effect on the local residents would be catastrophic let alone the detrimental effect on house prices in an already falling market, this will affect everyone in cornwall. Also who would want to holiday in Cornwall or eat or drink anything produced in Cornwall with the potential pollution.
D,
For the long term, Cornwall and it's people need the best future proof solution available. I strongly believe that the current EFW proposal is not the best overall solution for the health or financial prosperity of our much loved county. Every effort should be made by all of us to ensure we put in place an approach to our waste which is best known solution now and one which is adaptable to improvement as we move forward.
Philip,
The St Dennis People do not want a incinerator in St dennis or anywhere else in Cornwall. If it is safe build it in Truro where the so called energy can be used to run the hospital. They say it can be used for industrial use at St Dennis who says the china clay industry will last another 30 years, what then? An obsolete building with no outlet use The French say it will create jobs, like they said with every promise to Imerys workers. Those promises were kept as well weren't, they...
Kevin,
I will fight this incinerator all the way even to knocking it down ass it is built.
Michael, Cornwall
This is not the right solution. Any equipment that needs an outlet chimney 400ft high to try to keep its poisonous emissions from the surrounding area must be seriously flawed, and there will be no control over where those emissions do land. Dioxins have been known to be carcinogenic for decades. There should be 5 or 6 smaller units of a different design spread evenly throughout Cornwall to cut down the mileage covered by waste collection vehicles, and prevent our visitors and tourists sitting in a queue of dust carts on the A30 or A38.
Tony, Cornwall
I hope that the new waste plan will be one that gets an effective recycling scheme going and also the more sustainable system of: materials recovery of MSW combined with AD energy recovery. It must not include the destructive method of incineration.
Brian, St Dennis
if its ok build 4 smaller ones in the major towns in the county
Ian, St. Agnes
NOT AN OPTION
Annie, Cornwall
Very definitely NOT an option!!!!
Annie,
Keep our special environment in Cornwall safe and free major pollutants like incinerators.
Maris June,
The government ban smoking in public places for our own good, ie health reasons. Then they expect us to want a 400 foot cigarette in the middle of cornwall for us all to breathe the nasty noxious fumes which no one knows exactly what sort of impact it would have on our health. If this is built we will find somewhere else to go on holiday, as we come here for the fresh clean air which is currently enjoyed. stop this pollution now! keep people healthy. dioxins were used to defoliate trees in Vietnam, they have no place in cornwall or anywhere else in the uk or the rest of the world.
Sarah, Manchester
We don't want our people and our Beautiful County of Cornwall exposed to Toxic emissions from the proposed St Dennis Incinerator just say no.
William, St Columb
I was raised in cornwall living most of my life there, my husband was born and raised in Cornwall, work has forced us to move out of the county but we return every 3 weeks to visit family. We recommend Cornwall to many friends, acquaintances were we currently live and have introduced many people to the county. Planting an incinerator on the landscape would spoil this. there are many forms of getting rid of waste surely something more friendly exists. With all the restraints on recycling, certain plastics allowed or not allowed etc, there must be other ways to combat waste management.
Victoria, Kent
At present you limit already what can be recycled, it would be worthwhile if all plastics, containers etc could be recycled but they cannot. This is simply spoiling the countryside for the sake of it.... surely costs are better spent finding alternative forms for disposal of waste. i.e. anarobic digestion, composting.
Jackie, St Dennis
Please, Incineration is not the answer you think it is, there a better, more ecological, and more socially responsible ways of reducing and disposing of waste.
John, Gloucestershire
These energy from waste plants do not produce significant pollution. This petition is simply the NIMBY's at work again who oppose all development in the countryside. These plants are an excellent way to dispose of rubbish, much better than into landfill because the energy is saved and used.
George, West Devon
It is not the people who have an incinerator imposed on them who are the NIMBIES. It is the people who press the switch to light their houses who would not dream of buying a house near a power station or energy from waste incinerator. We are not NIMBIES either because we do not want the toxic fly ash coming 200 miles up the M5 to be dumped next to us.
Ted , Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire
Another threat to your way of life along with the Regional Spatial Strategy,( born out of the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act) which abolished Structure Plans &Regional Planning Guidance!!
Bryan, Fowey
We must stop this now. Long term affects will be disastrous to our environment, our people, our farming and tourism. Please don't ruin such a fabulous county through utter stupidity and lack of forethought.
Chris, Cornwall
Cornwall has recently received bad publicity on it's treatment of sewerage found polluting beaches. A waste incinerator will add more toxins to an area already struggling to cope. We need to encourage recycling and reuse not a waste incinerator.
Ian , Cornwall
A decision to go ahead with an incinerator with all the information available about its toxic side effects is reckless eco-terrorism
Lindi,
if you don't sign this now then you won't be able to complain later, this is your last chance to have your say before the particles start drifting across Cornwall, affecting your health and your livelihood, and that of your children/grandchildren
Steve,
The Cornish landscape has an industrial past and the recovery is a long and slow one. The incinerator is not the solution for a County so dependant on its visitors or for its income. It must not be allowed to go ahead we must find new ways to dwal with this problem. We must ban plaststic from Cornwall and have massive composting programs with a green tax levied on the tourists and on us as business people.
Robert, Lanteglos by Fowey
Incineration is NOT the answer to waste disposal. Keep Cornwall clean and beautiful!
Diana, London
There are proven alternative technologies to incineration, including anaerobic digestion and gasification, which provide a more sustainable and environmentally conscious alternative. Cornwall is characterised by its natural beauty, and should be leading the way in utilising the best available environmental option for treatment of waste.
Neil, Redruth
As someone who works in this area I feel an incinerator at St Dennis would be one more development that would benefit those who live out of the area more than the nearby residents.
J, Cornwall
The verdict of this Public Enquiry must be that the incinerator must not be built for the reasons stated above.
Elizabeth, Cornwall
Why are SITA trying to apply a 19th century solution to a 20th century problem, when there are cheaper more environmentally friendly solutions to the problem. Please don't poison our beautiful county in this way.
Grenville, St Just, W. Penwith
I oppose incineration because it: • Depresses recycling and wastes resources • Releases greenhouse gasses • Relies on exaggerating future quantities of waste instead of strongly increased recycling and composting • Creates toxic emissions and hazardous ash and other residues • Poses health risks Alternatives are cheaper, more flexible, quicker to implement and better for the environment. Rather than incinerating waste, companies should focus on minimising waste, re-using or maximising recycling. Recyclables and biodegradables should be separated from the small amount of residue material. This residue should be stabilised by composting and then sent to landfill. Plastics which will form a large part of the feedstock for SITA’s bonfire in a box should be recycled not burnt. SITA UK operations are noted for environmental incidents including notifiable air emissions of CO, SO2, HCl, particulates, dioxins and furans, broken miscalibrated instruments and catastrophic breakdowns.
Andy, South Gloucestershire
Cornwall has 1 major industry, tourism; the routine release of toxins will destroy the reason why many people visit the area: As Cornwall becomes the toilet for other countries and other regions waste, tourists will follow the clean air to other unspoilt areas. The fools who authorised the incinerators are effectively undermining the 'beauty and purity' brand that is Cornwall. Wake up before it is too late!
Fiona,
I saw incinerators at work in Belgium (Droogenbos). Filthy things and made the locals life miserable. I went to School in Cornwall and would quite like it if it was not ruined by the time I get back.
Michael, Kuala Lumpur
Emissions of Co2and polluting particlesand gases from incinerators are bad enough for usand the planet but the tiny particulates which by pass nostril and bronchial cilla and loddge in lung tissue will unnessesarly limit our breathing capacity,thereby taxing our health service and curtail ability to work.Animaal husbandry will sufferr,vet costs will suffer
Hilda, Cornwall
A waste incinerator in this location where the main businesses of cornwall is farming and tourism, where polutants are going to be harmful the enviroment and economy Surely there are other way of dealing with Cornwalls Waste.Think long term about our waste and future generations
Josephine, Redruth
It is time for the people of Cornwall to stand up and be counted before it is too late. The Duchy is being ruined by decisions made on our behalf by people who do not live here. We will become over populated and this will create more waste. I would like to know how many tons are generated by the the tourists every summer extra to the rest of the year How many of the 70000 new houses will be habited by Cornish people Not many. If we cant cope with our waste now how will we cope then. Stop migration before it is too late. it would appear that the bigger picture is being ignored such as roads water supply sewers schools hospitals food supply polution. Send our waste back to whence it came
John, Cornwall
In the last paragraph, 'independence' should of course read 'dependence'. The preferable strategy is maximal recycling, including anaerobic digestion of organic waste.
Vivien, Cornwall
This incinerator MUST be blocked. If installed it will pollute the already polluted air and encourage waste to be burnt (and produced), and discourage recycling and other sustainable ways of reducing and dealing with waste.
Alexia, St.Austell
From what I have read this will cause an increase in cancers in Cornwall and deaths related to them. Would the gentlemen from SITA and Cornwall Council be happy to play Russian Roulette with their own families lives?
Roger, Penzance
The opinions of the people who live there MUST be listened to. THEY DONT WANT IT any more than YOU would if it was on YOUR doorstep. GOOD LUCK!
Susanne, Reading
Incinerators are unsustainable, given they will burn materials with a higher embodied energy content than the useful energy released by it's combustion. As it is unsustainable, it can not be considered Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO) Incineration brings with it increased morbidity and mortality in populations adjacent to incinerator sites, localised by prevailing wind, and dated to incinerator start up. It's time for local govt to report back to regional govt that incineration is socially unacceptable. they should develop instead a 'fit for purpose' reduce, re-use, recycle, and composting infrastructure as an alternative to landfill, rather than incineration of waste as a means of final disposal.
Bruce , Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
There is overwhelming evidence that waste incinerators are major pollutants and potential health hazard. They should not be part of a waste disposal solution. It is technology from the Ark! Even if there was a case for an incinerator, why on earth locate it right by an urban community. Do SITA not employ anybody with common sense? The council (who represent the interests of the local community by the way) have refused permission. What happened to democracy?
Nicholas,
Incinerators are outdated and destroy valuable resources that we should be preserving for future generations. They are polluting and dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. Cornwall should not be taking such a short sighted, short term solution to this problem but should be looking for long term sustainable ways to resolve this issue.
Lynn, Cornwall
This unsustainable technology will create toxic residues that will be disposed of in our village, polluting our children's future too.
Barbara, Bishop's Cleeve, Glos
Incineration is not the way forward. We must have a sustainable environment friendly waste policy.
Les, Carharrack
Incineration is bad value for money and produces too much c02
DAVID, WILTSHIRE
Rural counties have waste service options which are better value for money than incineration, increase the recycling and diversion from landfill targets and don't increase CO2
David , FAN OF CORNWALL
We had an incinerator in the Rhondda as a result of which many people, including my husband and many of his friends died from different forms of cancer.Protest my friens.PROTEST NOW BEFORE IT PROVES TO LATE
June, Rhondda
Cornwall must develop a sutainable waste policy. Incineration is NOT the answer.
Les , Carharrack, Cornwall
As Shadow Cabinet Member for Waste and the Environment on Cornwall Council I will not support a single mass burn EFW plant in St Dennis or anywhere else in Cornwall.
Roy, Par
Keep the environment safe
Duncan,
Good campaign
Kenneth , Cornwall
Following local protests and lobbying, East Lothian Council has refused permission for an incinerator in Dunbar. Cornwall can do the same.
Eurig, Scotland
The problem is our monetary system, it is based on exponentially compounding debt which can never be repaid... whoops. This fundamental structural issue which requires endless accelerating growth, underpins all our social and environmental problems. The incinerator is clearly not the best option; but frankly most of the current green initiative will be like pissing into the wind without monetary reform. Changing the debt based money system will be the greenest thing we can do.
Mark, St Ives
It is outragous and sickening. Shame on sita
Patrick,
Other means of dealing with waste are available without contaminating the Duchy and causing a risk to health and our food industry that employs many Cornish workers. This is an ill conceived costly plan
Rodney, Porthleven
It is time the UK stopped incinerating waste
Stephen, Rainworth, Notts
Anaerobic digester would be far superior & less wasteful.
Julia, Penzance
Incinerators directly contradict Zero Wast policy and discourage reduction in waste
Susan, East Lothian
Anaerobic digestion is the best and safest way to deal with putrescible waste. Incineration is only one step above landfill in the waste treatment hierarchy.
Chris, Cornwall
NNNNOOOOOO
James, United Kingdom
I firmly believe that incineration is NOT the way to deal with today's waste problems. IReduce, re-use and re-cycle does work!n cineration produces environmental toxins which are unseen.
Gregor, United Kingdom
i wish you good luck with your campaign, we had the same threat but we one the day i give you support. The way things are today they cant kid the people anymore.
Alexander, East Lothian
To save everybody time and expense, Sita should withdraw their application and accept the verdict of the Planning Committee
Shlomo, Mansfield
We need to localise waste disposal, and ensure that it is clean disposal, and extracting the maximum energy from the waste for use locally.
Chris, Ladock
There are many solutions to the waste problem - the Incinerator, with its toxic output is not one of them
Tony, Cornwall
There are eco friendly solutions to the waste problem - so please use them and forget the Incinerator
Margaret, United Kingdom
Incinerators are out of date. Converting waste to gas at high temperatures result in generating 2650 kw electricity per ton of waste - i.e. the system is more efficent than any solid fuel power station, and the fuel is the county waste. There is no exhaust from the process which is carried out in the absence of air.
Peter, Cornwall
This waste plant will be not only an eysore and a blot on the landscape for years to come , but, if built, will stand as a testimony to the backward 'old technology' thinking of the Cornwall County Council. There are now much cheaper, cleaner, smaller and more eco-friendly solutions available to the challenges of dealing with waste - not the least being proper encouragement for all to re-cycle. For St. Dennis and for Cornwall this plant must not be built. (Also, via STIG, see the work of Ms. Charmian Larke & Rod Toms ).
David , St Kew Highway, Cornwall
Sitas track record on keeping promises. I have been told at a presentation by David Buckle if the people of St. Dennis are against our Incinerator being built we shall not build. Again they are not listening. If they do build a 400ft toxic chimney 200 metres from our village on farmland this will destroy our village and put our childrens health at risk. The nearby primary school is in direct line with the proposed chimney. How do we as parents live with ourselves if a healthy 3 year old boy now becomes ill in the coming years. A village of some 2000 people to accept the whole of Cornwalls waste seems absurd. The transport of waste by road means journeys of 70 miles for one vehicle to one site. Fuel costs and traffic jams on our roads and also these large lorries taking short cuts through villages is a disaster waiting to happen. Sita have never built a Incinerator next to a village always on the edge of large towns they have also told me at one of their presentations.
David, St Dennis
Burning our rubbish will neither solve our landfill problems or energy issues! we have to make some tough decisions now, but this shouldn't be one of them
Amy, Cornwall
Energy from waste, is a technology very necessary at present as an alternative to using landfill.These hi-tech incinerators produce no pollution. This petition should be ignored.It is produced by the same NIMBYs who oppose wind energy and all development in the countryside regardless of necessity.
George,
Incinerators are 'old' technology - sensible recycling will reduce waste and resources should be devoted to this.
Lance, United Kingdom
You have support on the Cornish Democrat blog: http://thecornishdemocrat.blogspot.com/
Philip, Duchy of Cornwall
We all need to be aware of the full impact and consequences that this type of project will have and do what we can to protect our people, land and prospects.
Gary, Truro
Please stop these abominations everywhere.We need waste minimisation, to conserve finite resoures, and benign technologies, A.D for bio waste. Stop Polluting the Poor, with mass burn incinerators. Start zero waste initiatives. No community's health & well being should be sacrificed on the altar of waste.
Patricia,
Invasion of Incinerators must be stopped. Apart from the fact they excrete Dioxins/furans etc the worst is the fact that they are destroying the planet. To keep feeding these things we have to rip natural raw materials from the planet make it sell it consume then Burn it and then we repeat the process. How utterly stupid is that, it is a proven fact that it is cheaper easier and saves the planet if we use The 3 R's REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE so use The 3 R's (Be'ave Yourself Reduce Reuse Recycle)
Tina, Highlands Scotland
If you have an incinerator in cornwall /there is no way my family will holiday there again. Incinerators cause cancers, abnormal children, miserey and cost double of recycling even moscow has stopped incinerators. They say recycling is half the cost and no toxic ash waste / health is more important than wealth.
Peter, Derby
Incineration is so wrong The earth can not sustain contiual mining and then burning of it's resources and humans will pay the price for being exposed to the pollutants created.
Marie, Highlands
Should be looking at something more up to date to solve the problem. Incineration is not the way forward in 2009 and beyond.
Mike,
After much research regarding the detrimental health implications of the proposed incinerator site at St. Dennis. I have come to the conclusion that the dioxins and nanoparticles will only serve to antagonise my daughter's ongoing severe asthmatic condition.
Helen , Mullion
Smoking Kills thats a goverment warning we all know so WHY dont they heed there own warning !!!
Mark, Mullion
Incineration is not the right technology for a green future. the sheer size of this proposal would also be the ruination of St.Dennis And Treviscoe and be a blot on the crnish landscape from miles around with a stack of 400 feet.
Mike, St Dennis
Do not contaminate our environment for the sake of a short term solution to waste disposal. Please think of our health, and the health of our children. Think also of the wildlife.... think of the long term consequences. Do something different for Cornwall.
Mellyn,
Unless SITA can't gaurantee that dioxin release from their incinerator can be zero.... or EXTREMELY low then I don't think this is a good idea.
Owain,
Do not pollute our environment. Our health and the health of our children should not be put at risk for a short term solution to waste disposal. Please think of the consequences.
Mellyn,
Cornwall can act as an exemplar of new localised resilience. Local use of waste materials not huge burn.
Lorely,
Micro waste sites servicing the main areas of population throughout cornwall will reduce the carbon footprint of transporting waste to dispose of it. If green tchnology is to be at the cutting edge of cornwall being a green county it should sasrt with our waste disposal
Glenys, Cornwall
This kind of approach (incineration) is a retrograde step, is in no way a sustainable solution, and would be disastrous for the environment as a whole, not just the people of Cornwall. SITA's appeal must be turned down.
Audrey, Portsmouth
There are better ways than this
Stephanie , Callington
I hope Cornwall will be allowed to remain beautiful.
Roselind, Ross-shire, Scotland.
This abomination should never be considered for our beautiful county, especially within a village.
Lynn, Cornwall
I have fault this from the start.It is in the wrong place we do not need a incinerator in cornwall.If it is built my home will have 350 lorries a day going past my front door ,this as been my home for twenty years surly this inot right for my family & st dennis.Do not let sita do this.
Christopher , St Dennis
This incinerator will cause hundreds of lorries to chock up an already glutted/standstill A30. It is a poor financial option, needing rubbish from outwith Cornwall to keep it running at anyhere near optional capacity. It is a knee-jerk reaction that ignores the fact that the UK is ALREADY into peak-oil energy decline, meaning the incinerator will be useless once fuel prices to bring rubbish are too high to be realistic. Reconsider this short-term, high cost bad idea.
Chloe, Holland
This affects far more than just he people in Cornwall. Incineration is damaging to the ecosystem and biodeiversity not only in terms of CO2 emissions (up to 2 tonnes of CO2 for every 1 tonne of rubbish burned) but also in terms of wasting resources that the Earth cannot replace. Incineration is short sited and selfish. People who are enthusiastic for it are either cold, calous, calculting, greedy individuals or they are simply misguided and don't know the full facts about the effects of burning.
Ro J, Scottish Highlands
The SITA policy is a disaster. No incinerators please.
Peter , Chasewater
I grew up in Cornwall and feel strongly about the whole waste incineration idea. We are obsessed with 'burning' from garden waste to dead bodies. The aim should be to cut down on the production of non-biodegradable materials and recycle everything that is classed as refuse.
Colin,