IS there any financial case for the new incinerator at Redcar for the Tees Valley in the longer term?
The proportion of domestic rubbish now going to be recycled is rising year by year. Or are we building a gigantic white elephant at the Tees Valley council taxpayers’ expense which will be of little use to anyone in the Tees Valley in 15 years?
Newcastle and Durham have recently joined in on the scheme to dispose of their domestic rubbish.
Will we see rubbish from all around the UK being taken to this massive facility at Redcar in wagons on our roads just to keep this facility going for another 45 years and just to make it pay?
How environmentally sound is it to take truckloads of rubbish from all around the UK to Redcar and then just burn it?
Cllr Nigel Boddy, Darlington.
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