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There are many problems with incinerators, but one of the main ones has just been confirmed by a company planning to build an incinerator in East Lothian.
Viridor have had a long-running battle to build an incinerator at Dunbar, to deal with the waste from Edinburgh and the surrounding environments. The locals don't want it, but the Scottish Government overruled them.
But the problem is, an incinerator needs fed. Which means that there's no incentive to reduce your waste or recycle. Viridor have confirmed this with the news that they now want to bend the rules that were imposed on the plant, by bringing in waste from much further afield than Edinburgh and the Lothians.
It seems crazy to ship waste across the width of the country just to burn it, and goes completely against the government's own recycling strategy. This plant needs to be killed off before it goes any further, and we end up just burning all of Scotland's waste.
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