The Mayor’s office is due to make a final decision on the Viridor Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) incinerator in Sutton tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday 21stAugust. The proposed incinerator if given the go ahead will burn waste from four London boroughs (Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton and Sutton). Green Party London Assembly Member Jenny Jones has strongly urged the Mayor to reject this application in her letter and then followed up with a Mayor’s question.
Jenny Jones said:
“Building a giant incinerator on metropolitan open land is not only contrary to the Mayor’s own planning policies and his waste hierachy, but it’s a recipe for a disaster for wildlife and local residents who will be exposed to unacceptable levels of air pollution coming from the chimney stacks”
“The Mayor has an opportunity to reject this proposal tomorrow. A rejection will send a clear signal to the waste industry and councils that signing new contracts that will see hundreds of thousands of tonnes of perfectly recyclable waste burned is completely unacceptable”