The Grim Reaper was among dozens of protesters who failed to stop councillors approving controversial plans for an incinerator and a tip.
The waste local plan sets out a strategy for future waste management and planning in East Sussex and Brighton and Hove.
It includes proposals for a tip in Hollingdean, Brighton, and an incinerator in Newhaven which have spurred activists in their thousands to protest at community meetings and demonstrations.
The endorsement given yesterday by East Sussex County Council's cabinet means the plan will now go to the full council on December 6 for final approval and adoption.
About 50 people from Friends of the Earth, Defenders of the Ouse Valley and Dump the Dump protested yesterday outside County Hall in Lewes. They vowed to continue their fight.
Lewes district councillor Marina Pepper, who visited the campaigners yesterday, said: "With global warming, this is not a time to be building incinerators.
"We have to change our ways. We have to reduce the amount of packaging and we have to recycle everything we can.
"The idea of an incinerator in this day and age is so old fashioned. It beggars belief."
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