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Article: Green group queries how toxic incinerator waste will be handled
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- Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
- Article date:
- June 5, 2007
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Environmentalists have called for more details about plans to
manage toxic waste from Exeter's proposed pounds32m incinerator on-
site.
The power-generating plant earmarked for Grace Road, on the Marsh
Barton industrial estate, could handle up to 60,000 tonnes of
municipal waste a year.
It was revealed yesterday that Devon County Council was
investigating technology which would allow harmful fly-ash to be
managed at the plant.
Now, Andrew Bell, of Exeter Friends of the Earth, wants to hear
more details on the proposals to treat the waste on-site.
He said: "We would need to know clearly what would happen to the
toxic material, as there is a large population nearby."
The council's ...