Incineration competes with recycling for paper, cardboard and plastic. Will long-term contracts guaranteeing rubbish deliveries have to be signed? Is this what a Public-Private Partnership means?

Plastics burn well, but are highly dangerous when burned as they are transformed into toxic gases including the notorious dioxin.

Food and other organic wastes can be turned into compost rather than being burned.

Metals and glass have been successfully recycled for decades.

The National Policy on Waste Management, Sept. 1998, states the
following:
"Care is necessary, however, to ensure that the development of W.T.E. capacity does not militate against long-term investment in materials re-cycling"

Incinerators have killed off recycling in many cities around the world. Don't let it happen here.

The advantage of incineration is that it does not need any sorting. It feeds into the "out of sight, out of mind" mentality. Rubbish burnt is destroyed forever, transformed into air pollution and highly toxic ash. We have learnt in the past few decades that there are limits to the resources of our planet so, reduction, reuse and recycling are necessities.