Campaigners fighting plans for a dump on their doorsteps are to present a dossier of alternatives for dealing with rubbish.

Waste contractor Onyx wants to build a £10 million materials recovery facility (MRF) and waste transfer site (WTS) in Hollingdean Lane, Brighton.

Residents started the Dump the Dump campaign last year to fight the plan.

They say the facility on the site of a former abattoir, which would handle up to 200,000 tonnes of waste daily, is unsuitable for an inner city area because it would cause extra traffic, noise and pollution. The site is also next to Downs Infant School and parents and governors are objecting.

Dump the Dump will present its dossier to Onyx representatives, MPs, members of Brighton and Hove City Council and the council's director of environment Jenny Rowlands at a public meeting in February.

Sandra Staufer, of the Dump the Dump campaign, said: "We haven't won the fight yet but we haven't lost it either. Our message is fight it or live with it. The council should look at the bigger picture. People are interested in the solutions we have to offer."

The campaigners have also been encouraging supporters to write to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Government Office for the South-East objecting to the site.

Before Christmas, both Brighton and Hove City Council and East Sussex County Councils adopted the waste local plan which identifies Hollingdean Lane as a site for waste. It also identifies Newhaven as a suitable site for an incinerator to burn waste.

The Hollingdean waste site would sort recycling and the remaining waste would be transported to the incinerator.

Although there are separate campaign groups fighting the incinerator, the Dump the Dump campaigners are supporting them.

Mrs Staufer said: "They want 60 per cent of rubbish to be burnt in the incinerator.

"That is discouraging people from recycling and the council from reaching recycling targets."

The campaigners are still waiting to see if Onyx submit a revised planning application for the Hollingdean site in the hope it will be more likely to be approved if it were on a smaller scale. Their next meeting is being held on Thursday February 2 at the Downs Infants School, Ditchling Road, Brighton at 7.30pm.