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Staffordshire is set to become the dumping ground for the West Midlands with a proposal to build a huge incinerator to burn not just domestic waste from Staffordshire, but also waste from other counties and commercial waste.
Staffordshire County Council is planning to build an incinerator at Four Ashes, just upwind from Cannock and Cannock Chase.
This incinerator will burn 300,000 tonnes of rubbish, and the intention is that half of this will not be from Staffordshire. The Council is negotiating with Warwickshire to burn 40,000 tonnes of their waste every year, Walsall to burn 50,000 tonnes, and they also want to burn 60,000 tonnes of commercial waste.
The incinerator will cost more than 150 million pounds to build. It will result in increased traffic as tens of thousands of tonnes of rubbish is trucked into the county.
The contract will be for 25 years, which means the pollution from the burning of more than 7 1/2 million tonnes of rubbish will fall across the south of Staffordshire.
Staffordshire County Council put in a planning application to Staffordshire County Council for the incinerator on the 23rd May. |
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