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	The Mass Burn Incinerator Proposal Biffa want to build an industrial plant at Westmill in Ware on land which was promised to be returned to Green Belt in 2017 when the gravel extraction and landfill had finished. Their reason for doing this is profit. It is a Mass Burn Incinerator to burn 400,000 tonnes of unseparated waste every year for up to 30 years gathered from commercial and industrial businesses which could be anywhere in the UK or maybe even overseas. This is not your household waste. It will operate for 24 hours every day for 7 days per week and 52 weeks per year for maybe 30 years with lorries bringing waste and other lorries taking away ash to go to landfill. The chimney stack is proposed to be over 90 metres high, taller than Big Ben. The industrial building will be 47 metres high, almost 10 metres taller than St Mary’s Church in Ware, including the spire on top of the tower. The building’s footprint will be roughly the size of that part of Ware between the High Street and Church Street. View a presentation of the issues 13mb Powerpoint presentation

	Proposed Timescale (approximate) 2011 – Biffa says it will submit plans for planning approval sometime this year (we will update this page as soon as we know their plans are in) 2012 – commence building 2016 – incinerator becomes operational ~~ at least 30 years later ~~ 2046 – incinerator shuts down 2047 – plant dismantling commences* 2050 – plant dismantling finishes * it takes about 3 years to dismantle the plant as the site is made highly toxic during the incineration process

	Mass Burn Incineration of Waste in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire County Council have decided to commission their own "waste management facility". This is a mass burn incinerator which will burn domestic and commercial waste and will be sited next to the Special School in the New Barnfield area of Hatfield. You can read more about this decision on the Hatfield Against Incineration (HAI) and Herts Without Waste (HertsWoW) websites. Click on the link to find out what HCC are saying about their own Waste Development Framework including their site allocation plans. UK Government Waste Review (June 2011) "We need, as a society, to value products and care about how they are made and used, and how we deal with them when we no longer need or want them. If not, we will not only increase costs at a time when we are facing real challenges in reducing the deficit, but we will also have a negative impact on our environment." Click on this link to the Waste Review to find out how the UK Government thinks we should manage our waste. The thrust of the government argument is not to burn it or put it in landfill but to drive waste management up the waste hierarchy.

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