Hull B.I.N.S.
Burning Is No Solution

Hull City Council wants to build an incinerator on Foster Street to burn domestic rubbish.

Incinerators give off fumes which contain toxic chemicals, including dioxins.

Dioxins are among the 12 most toxic chemicals known – the infamous Agent Orange is a dioxin.
The US Environment Protection Agency has shown a definite link with cancer.
Even low-level exposure is known to interfere with the immune and reproductive systems
Dioxin in chicken feed in Belgium caused nationwide food panic recently.

Incinerating rubbish leaves behind poisonous ash. This has to be loaded onto lorries, and driven out of Hull to get to the landfill site.

In Newcastle, the ash was used to resurface paths in parks and allotments – now children under the age of 2 have been banned from these paths and people have ben told not to eat produce from their gardens.

It has been estimated that the rubbish incinerator in Newcastle could lead to 800 deaths and 1,600 hospital cases over the next 20 years because of the exposure to chemicals through emissions and dioxins getting into the food chain.

A waste incinerator in Hull could cause the same sort of cancer clusters we had before with Capper Pass.

Hull City councillors say there is no other solution to dispose of our rubbish. We have to convince them they are wrong.
The alternatives are cleaner, greener, cheaper and will create more jobs.

The next meeting to discuss the campaign will be at the One-Stop Environment Shop, Mill Street, Prospect Centre, Hull on 16 November 6.00 pm.

For more information about the proposed incinerator, the alternatives, and ways to help the campaign, write to [email protected]

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