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United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN)
UKWIN represents more than 85 anti-incineration groups in the UK and advocates more sustainable approaches to waste management. Compared to incineration, recycling and re-use are cheaper, more flexible and better for both the environment and the economy.Tel: 01623 640134
Web: www.ukwin.org.uk
Email: shlomo.dowen@gmail.com
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Burned: Merthyr's fight for clean air and green jobs
The Ecologist
27th June, 2011
What would you do if an American company planned to site a huge incinerator - bigger than the Millennium Stadium - above your town? How would you feel if you knew that no existing technology could prevent that incinerator pumping out toxic chemicals? more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Shlomo Dowen, UK Without Incineration Network
Matilda Lee
5th April, 2011
The head of the UK's grassroots anti-incineration network on working towards a zero waste economy, encouraging community engagement and avoiding 'defeatist' language more...
UK can achieve 'zero waste' without incineration
Tom Levitt
5th October, 2010
Current 'dump it or burn it' mindset can only be resolved by moving away from incineration and landfill and aiming for a zero waste policy, say campaigners more...
Landfill could be greener than recycling when it comes to plastic bottles
Eric Johnson
8th September 2010
For regions with adequate space and little recycling infrastructure, disposing of bottles in landfill generates a lower carbon footprint than recycling or incineration... more...
The new green face of incineration technology
Mark Jansen
18th May, 2010
Incineration is a dirty word amongst environmentalists, its reputation earned through the use of outdated technology. Could new techniques help bring green approval to energy-from-waste facilities? more...
UK losing £650m a year by binning and burning waste
Ecologist
7th October, 2009
A report from Friends of the Earth reveals the huge extent of the pollution and financial losses caused by our love of landfill and incineration more...
Fire resistant: 'Why I went to jail to protect my daughter from toxic polluters'
Terri Swearingen
1st December, 2004
How far would you go to fight plans for a new waste incinerator? One woman went all the way... more...
I love incinerators
Mark Anslow
15th May, 2008
When it comes to selling incinerators, only the best PR will do. Mark Anslow reports more...
Incinerators: the lethal consequences of breathing fire
Pat Thomas
6th September, 2007
Despite the best efforts of the industry to rebrand and clean up incineration, the fact remains that today's incinerators still permit pollution. more...
Less waste, more speed
Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes
29th March, 2007
Growing crops to solve the planet’s energy needs doesn’t work. Recycling the energy in our waste just might have a significant part to play. By Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes more...
Such a waste
News
16th March, 2007
One third of the contents of an average British fridge ends up in landfill, a new report from the government's waste and recycling body, Wrap (The Waste and Resources Action Programme), is expected to reveal. more...
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Bin your bin
Jon Hughes
1st July, 2006
If you don't want an incinerator near you, you are either going to have to move to a rich neighbourhood or bin your bin... more...
Debate: Sports Utility Vehicles (4x4s)
Michael Harvey and Paul Kingsnorth
21st May, 2005
Are SUVs a crime against civilisation, or paragons of efficiency? Are they ugly, arrogant and antisocial, or bright, beautiful and mobile? And do the polar passions they arouse pit the politics of envy against the Americanisation of British culture? Paul Kingsnorth and Michael Harvey discussmore...
Are you too well behaved
Diane Wilson
1st October, 2004
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act. more...
Like Flowers Breaking through the Cement
Holly Wren
1st April, 2003
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports. more...Members
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