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More on getting rid of recycling in order to feed incineration tonnages contracts

More shortly on the legal story. We go to the Justice Courts next.

Re more breaches of the Household waste Recycling Act in order to fill contractual waste tonnages - City Council now trying to get rid of recycling collections in over 130 streets on Derby, in order to force people to use the blackbin (so-called 'residuals') only, for waste which is currently recycled and composted (brown and blue bin). More information here.

As you can see from the previous news, that newsletter telling people to throw all their waste into the blackbin and which they claimed was a mistake, was nothing of the sort. No coincidence that the waste contract stipulates 13,000 tonnes of blackbin waste EACH MONTH.

The good news about this move is of course, that the incinerator developers are recognising that THEY WILL NOT HAVE ENOUGH WASTE TO BURN. As just burning blackbin waste is set to create dioxin (and carbon dioxide emissions of 172,000 tonnes EACH YEAR, it has not been calculated how much extra CO2 from all the extra organic waste to be destroyed) and extra nitrogen dioxide (City Co Environmental Health Officers acknowledged that the incinerators and associated traffic will cause extra NO2 in an Air Quality Management Area) and extra Deaths Brought Forward, none of the increases in these, because of all that extra waste being destroyed instead of composted and recycled, have been calculated.

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