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Residents from North Yorkshire in the UK have staged protests
against plans for a waste-to-energy facility and have
instead called for improved recycling rates, according to the BBC.
AmeyCespa was recently awarded Preferred Bidder for the North Yorkshire
and City of York Waste PFI and said the project is currently in the
first stage of community consultation on the plans.
Councillor John Savage, who represents the Ainsty Division and Marston
Moor wards, has been a leading opponent and was reported to have said
that if recycling rates were improved there would be no need for the
facility.
The BBC reported that the county council said it was planning to
recycle more and the site would "complement" those efforts.
Ian Fielding, assistant director of waste management at North Yorkshire
County Council, was reported to
have said: "We will never get away from the need to treat waste.
"We can recycle more and we're planning to recycle more across North
Yorkshire and particularly in Harrogate there is more work to be done."
"We're not sitting back and not doing anything in fact the proposal at
Allerton Park is not instead of recycling, it's very much complementary
to it."
