Anti-Incinerator Alliance

Thomond Pk

4th GAIA Global Day of Action on Waste and Incineration
7 September 2005

On 7 September 2005, the participating groups, coalitions and
communities of the Global Alliance for Incinerator
Alternatives / Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (GAIA) will
once again mark the Global Day of Action on Waste and
Incineration (GDA). First held in 2001, the GDA
demonstrates our shared purpose of putting an end to the
incineration of waste resources, and of progressing towards
clean production, zero waste and a toxic-free future. The
GDA is an excellent occasion to affirm this shared mission,
revitalize the linkages and relationships we have forged
through the years, gear up for more challenges ahead, and
celebrate the victories and changes in public policies and
awareness that came about by our convergence and action.

SIGN UP - A Call to Get Involved: We invite you to join
the GDA by carrying out an activity that will cater to your
needs and fit into your priorities and available resources. No
activity is "small" or "insignificant." The GDA represents the
power of multiple groups acting in synergy, so even if your
group can only organize a "small" action, this will be
magnified through the actions of dozens of others around the
world. In this way, the impact of the GDA is more than the
sum of its parts.

Please note that participating groups will have the option of
undertaking their activities immediately before, on or after 7
September 2005 to suit local conditions, but we encourage the
activity to take place sometime that week if possible.

To sign up, please log on to http://www.no-
burn.org/gdaw05/gdaw05-join.html.

bandraoi

If you're pro the environment than the logical stance is to be pro the recovery of energy from waste, the most efficient way of accomplishing this is through incineration.

Thomond Pk

Absolutely not,

The most efficient waste management strategies are to reduce waste at source (an underfunded repak will testify to serious deficencies in government policy and funding)

Reuse most packaging is not of a sufficent spec for regular reuse.

Recycle; For my company to put paper to landfill costs 3.50 a bag with no weight restriction with a Eurobin I can have 1100 litres lifted for 23 euro ie 750 kgs of paper. To recycle 1 sack of paper which is generally 40% full the company must pay 5 euro for 750 kgs costing 250 euro.

As Dick Roche would say it isn't incineration it is 'heat treatment' which would in an applied way make arson a heat event.

This government has not implemented the waste directive; we as taxpayers will pay the massive EU fine which is not far off.

bandraoi

So true, Thomond but Incineration with energy recovery is a form of recycling.
Therefore if you wish to implement the EU waste directive, Incineration will form a component part.
Incineration is much much greener than landfill.

Thomond Pk

Big fine coming in for non-implementation of the directive, Dock Roche is spinning but the flaws in the 1996 waste management act are breathtaking.

Incineration is part of the solution but until we acheive typical RRR rates of 90% like the rest of Northern Europe the incineration rate required would be far from sustainable and impact on far too many waste management regions. As Wicklow is an independent Waste management region as is Hesse or Nord pas de Calais I am offering Dick Roche my full support in promoting an incinerator for the Wicklow waste management region.

GP

I see people burning their waste in little drums (if you're lucky, otherwise on the ground) all over the place. Are you going to go after them too ??? They cause more toxic waste than any incinerator will ever do.

Thomond Pk

Just because people are being murdered the statue book is not altered to permit rape; burning waste is illegal and regular offenders should be fined. A local garage near me every year gave about 300-500 tyres to local kids for the halloween bonfire which not only created pollution but there were significant health and safety issues related to 8 year olds moving tyres around to be scrapped cars as well as the fire risk presented by the tyres themselves.

To return to the issue of incineration as a method of mass waste disposal is highly premature in the context of the failure of this Government to higher levels of the reduce, Recycle and Reuse model which in all countries with incineration has a success level of c 60%.

In this regard Ireland is yet again bottom of the class and the non implementation of the Waste directives will cost you and I a fortune as the EU rules on this administrations failures yet again.

bandraoi

Self sufficiency in waste management is a major component of the EU waste directive.
We can't eliminate medical waste, and the only safe and sustainable way to deal with medical waste is incineration.
Therefore to be able to comply with the EU directives and avoid a fine at least one incinerator is therefore required in the country.

Further a major component of the EU waste management policy is the introduction of energy recovery from waste as a form of recycling. Incineration is by far and away the most efficient way of recovering energy from waste.

Emissions from landfills are much more hazardous to the environment than emissions from incinerators.

Thomond Pk

bandraoi wrote:

Incineration is by far and away the most efficient way of recovering energy from waste.

Reduction in the quantities of packaging used, reuse of a variety of products and recycling are by far and away the most efficient way of recovering energy from waste. There have already been two incinerators sanctioned nationwide one in Co Meath and the other in Ireland's Environmental septic tank Ringaskiddy. With proper waste managment practices no more would be required.

When Ireland crawls off the bottom of the class in relation to reduce recycle and reuse then I will take your point on board, but it will relate to 5% of the existing annual waste mountain and not the 60% that is currently landfilled annually.

BolBill

Are they terrorists?