Student complaints lead to closure of CFE’s incinerator
Tuesday 25th May 2010, 1:00PM BST.
AN INCINERATOR at the College of Further Education will be shut down after students complained to an Education Department board member.
Waste campaigner David De Lisle was shocked to learn it was in use and has pressed for it to be scrapped.
The board agreed to his proposition in April and an update report earlier this month stated the college had been told to stop using it and another report was being prepared on alternatives.
The incinerator has been on the site since it was built by a welding student in the 1970s.
It is the size of several dustbins and was used originally to get rid of material from various workshops at the college, such as carpentry.
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I’m surprised and saddened that the Department of Health has evaded the Parliamentary Questions set by Norman Baker MP and Paul Holmes MP about incinerators as seen from this written reply (Hansard, 30 Nov 2009; Col 539W):
Incinerators: Health Hazards
Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect on public health of emissions from a functioning incinerator; [302956]
(2) with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Lewes of 17 September 2007, Official Report, column 2209W, on infant mortality: incineration, what recent assessment his Department has made of the correlation between the presence of a functioning incinerator and the incidence of infant mortality in that area. [302957]
Ann Keen: The Department has made no recent assessments of the effect on public health of emissions from incinerators, or the effects on infant mortality.
The health protection agency (HPA) recently reviewed the latest research on the impact on health of emissions to air from modern municipal waste incinerators and published a statement in September 2009. It concluded that, while it is not possible to rule out adverse health effects completely, any potential damage from modern, well-run and regulated incinerators is likely to be so small that it would be undetectable. The advice is available on the agency’s website at:
http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&;HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1251473372175
The HPA also advised that studies of public health around modern, well managed municipal waste incinerators are not recommended, since any possible health effects are likely to be small.
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The HPA haven’t bothered to examine any relevant data at electoral ward level around any incinerator as seen from their letter to me:
http://www.ukhr.org/incineration/justinmccracken8june2009.pdf
Here’s typical map showing varying infant death rates around 3 incinerators in West Yorkshire mentioned by Mark Metcalf in his Big Issue in the North article of 26 April 2010
http://ukhr.org/incineration/kirkleesarea.pdf
http://markwrite.co.uk/Incinerator.htm
Kind regards,
Michael Ryan,
Shrewsbury
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