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FoE guy "burning plastic whether in a fuel or in an incinerator is INCREDIBLY polluting"
That's tosh cos high temperature incinerators have proper filters (most of Europe uses them) It's only in BBC/Guardianland that recycling is the ONLY secondary way, the BBC never mentions anything except recycling.
It's kind of weird that every edition contains this plastic to fuel item, as if it's an advert that someone paid for .
Environmental lawyer Paul Davies of Latham and Watkins says there is already a site in Belgium about to come online.
stewgreen
"Also many large mammals live in the sea".
Yes, and we nearly drove many of them to extinction. We must have seriously depleted the gene pool of many cetaceans.
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stewgreen
I took a look at Johnston Press' Sleaford Standard report of the "lithium fire" - they don't care for reader comments in that part of The Fens it seems
Having had considerable experience in preparing for Lithium fires in the workplace I'm always curious when one purportedly happens.... having had to deal with idiot elf and safertree folk wrt Lithium batteries and the mechanisms that lead to a metal fire.
The report offers no evidence and the attribution appears to be an unsubstantiated guess - I'm surprised they didn't also double down and finger an evil vaping apparatus as well...
The "recycling" companies and the councils are looking for ways to further restrict what can be disposed of via rubbish collection and I think we can expect a carnival of expensive restrictions in addition to what's already in place.
Wiltshire council have recently modified their recyling centres to have 4 metre high skips to make things more awkward - I've seen pensioners struggling with that already and it seems only a matter of time before one has a nasty tumble.
tomo
7:30pm South West
how millions of potentially toxic plastic pellets have contaminated the South West's seas and rivers.
Mike Dilger traces the 300-mile recycling journey of a single-use coffee cup.
In fact every area carries to plastic fuel item, and one other green item ..like "return of the milk float"
stewgreen
Wednesday's Times free
EU policy to burn more wood will ‘fuel climate change’
The use of wood to fuel power plants could cause EU energy emissions to rise by 10 per cent or more by 2050, cancelling out declines achieved with solar or wind power, the study said.
The policy would confound years of efforts to save trees by recycling paper.
stewgreen
That same 7:30pm BBC1 Yorks prog has
\\ Johnny I'Anson* look at efforts to produce energy from food waste.//
* ha the weather lady Keeley is the main presenter, I'anson is her husband
In the East You have
- an exclusive report on the latest idea for disposing of the plastic mountain.
Researchers have found a way to make new 'greener' fuel from plastic mined from landfill.
There are 5,000 'Goldilocks' sites across the UK that could be mined.
It could be a potential money-spinner but some environmentalists say plastic should be left buried.
- if you are confused about what plastic to recycle help is at hand as a Peterborough street gets a recycle makeover.
- out on the river with a Kettering man who takes other people's rubbish home.
stewgreen
Household battery thought to be cause of major fire at Mid UK Recycling plant near Ancaster
- A lithium battery put in a household recycling bin is thought to have caused a major fire at a waste processing plant near Ancaster this morning.
Around 50 firefighters have been at the scene of a major blaze at a recycling plant near Ancaster
Good job electric car batteries are 100% stable.
Other local news : I see that there are 5 peregrine chicks living 100 ft up at the Vivergo ethanol plant which is due to close .... (on at 7:30pm)
stewgreen
@STI believe he did say what I said
..Also many large mammals live in the sea.
stewgreen
SG. You over exaggerate. Rees did not say we have completely overwhelmed evolution. He may have said that humans are now the dominant force influencing evolution. Whereas I have not heard this claim debated before, I can entertain the possibility that he is correct. Outside polar regions and relatively small protected areas, almost all the world's large mammals (excepting elephants) have their reproduction controlled by humans. Clearing of natural vegetation for crops has led to extinction rates not seen since the end of the Mesozoic (and you can't influence evolution more than causing extinction).
There is one way in which Rees is totally wrong. Humans have inadvertently increased evolutionary rates in microbes when we have tried to control them chemically.
"influencing a lot of nature a bit". Read my last post again. We do a hell of a lot more than influencing "A BIT" as well you must know from all your travels.
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Jesus BBC/Guardianland constant preaching at teens seems to generate a backlash as at Leeds Festival a mass of plastic rubbish is just left
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