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On a bright Spring day with fresh blue skies and fluffy clouds skudding overhead on the breeze, there were no visible emissions from the chimney. All that could be seen at ground level was clean water steam, and little of that even. I value our little spaceship Earth no less than the next person, but look around you, see the fast food and drink litter, the dog mess, the chewing gum on every pavement. The graffiti. At the next level of scale, the fly-tipping. And of course the landfill. Just 8% is recycled while a healthier 20% contributes to electricity generation supplying 24,000 thousands home. The landfill is still 72%. In Britain, over the last 60-odd years we have not achieved safe and permanent disposal of all the nuclear waste from power generation and defence and medical processes. Yet over the same period we have virtually exhausted the more easily accessible North Sea oil and gas resources. The coal industry is marginalised yet we should be leading the world in clean coal fired stations. But even after forty years talking of tidal barrages it is still little more than hot air. The solution lies in your hands, use less, waste less, use everything more efficiently and when you have finished with resources make sure that they are properly disposed of at plants like these. | |||
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Dioxin limits at 0.07 of a nanogramme operate here | |||
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Integrated waste management solutions |
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Recycle Energy Clinical EcoPark | ||
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Animated computer graphics of furnace processes |
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Animated computer graphics of flue cleaning processes | ||
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Control Room power generation lights and switches |
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Electricity generation in turbine hall | ||
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Bagged waste in seventy foot deep pits supply furnaces |
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Video monitoring of incoming waste and furnaces | ||
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Extracted ferrous metals for onward sale and re-processing |
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So that's where my fork went! | ||
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Polkacrest handles clinical waste |
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Even waste water is cleaned and re-used in flue washing | ||
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Seven boroughs of North London Waste Authority |
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Spare parts, better than an art gallery installation | ||
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