More power to the campaigns against waste incinerators at North Quay, Newhaven, and Mountfield Mine, near Robertsbridge (The Argus, February 16).
If successful, they may bring about a rational UK waste policy.
Incinerators are no solution to the ever-growing waste problem in the UK. Waste minimisation, re-use, recycling, composting and making safe the little that is then left for landfill do comprise a solution.
Incinerators tie the local council for 20-30 years to feeding waste to an ever-ageing but expensive, high-temperature and polluting process.
If readers think the Environment Agency will protect them and their children's health from incinerator hazards - in your dreams.
I was on the Board of the Environment Agency from 1998 to 2001 and found many examples of pollution being denied or covered up.
The most infamous was the Byker incinerator in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
If incinerators are so safe, let one be built in the centre of Brighton.
-A J P Dalton, London
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