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GOVERNMENT SHOULD SCRAP GREEN LIGHT POLICY FOR INCINERATORS - DOUGHTY

12.00.00am UTC (GMT +0000) Mon 20th Oct 2003

Industrial chimney pollution (smoke). (photography: Courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the United States of America's Department of Energy)

"The Government has been warned repeatedly that its waste strategy is pushing local councils towards a policy of incineration. Ministers are not giving councils the support they need make recycling and waste reduction an affordable alternative to landfill.

"The Government's excuse for Britain's unambitious recycling targets is that we started a long way behind the rest of Europe. If we are a long way behind Europe, then after 6 years of Labour Government, Blair must take the blame.

"The Government's message should be 'reduce, reuse and recycle', but their policies are telling people 'bin it, burn it or bury it'."

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