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Alis Ballance La Scozia Scottish Parliament Candidate Anti-incinerator Campaigner

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Alis Ballance La Scozia Scottish Parliament Candidate Anti-incinerator Campaigner. Incineration. Why in Scotland? Why in Italy? Why on Earth?. Climate Chaos Energy, Transport, Purchasing, Food & Waste. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Alis BallanceLa Scozia

Scottish Parliament CandidateAnti-incinerator Campaigner

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Incineration

Why in Scotland?

Why in Italy?

Why on Earth?

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Climate Chaos

Energy, Transport, Purchasing, Food & Waste

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There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong actions now. Ultimately, stabilisation requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels.

- Nicholas Stern, Former Chief Economist, World Bank

(Stern Review 2006, updated 2008)

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Waste > Zero Waste

• Waste – used stuff – useless

• Zero Waste – everything is useful

• Incineration – Wasteful!

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Dumfries and GallowaySouthern Scotland

• 2003 – Eco Deco 25 year contract

• Fuel Blocks transported 500 kilometres

• 2009 Scotgen Incinerator – 10 year contract

• “Energy from Waste” (but it takes more energy to dry the waste than it produces…)

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Scotgen, Dumfries

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Incineration - Wasteful

• Precious resources burnt – never to return

• Peak Oil – re-use or recycle plastic

• Polluting

• Landfill in the sky!

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Scotgen, Dumfries• Eco Deco and Scotgen plants each in SEPA’s list of top 20

polluters in Scotland

• “Very poor”, “Significant non-compliance” “urgent improvements required”

• Sept. 2010 SEPA reports: “Problems occurred and the combustion activities were offline until recommissioning restarted on 11 March 2011. Since then… -

• 15 activations of the by-pass stack; 2 failures of the emission monitoring system; 172 short-term emission breaches; the ash-handling system regularly blocks; turbine dysfunctional, so no electricity produced so far!

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And

• Regional Council has stopped all doorstep recycling

• Plastics and paper needed for fuel

• Council tied into 25 year contract

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Zero Waste – the alternative vision

• Moffat CAN (Carbon approaching Neutral)

• GROW ALLOT – Greatly Reduce/Reuse/Recycle Our Waste and Lead Local Organic Trade

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Zero-Waste in Scotland is Possible!

Rifiuti Zero in Valdera e’ possible!

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