Simonswood incinerator: medical waste facility to be built on the border of West Lancashire and Kirkby as residents warn, 'You're signing our death warrants'
Under the plans – brought forward by Warrington-based Culzean W2E Limited – infectious waste including dressings, laboratory specimens, diagnostic kits and protective clothing will be “thermally destructed” in an 850-degree-celsius process known as pyrolysis.
Local opponent Stephen Jones said that the “life-threatening risks associated with medical waste incinerators” had been disregarded by county council planners, who had recommended that councillors approve the blueprint. However, he warned them that they would have “blood on [their] hands” if they did so.Mr.
Mr. Jones said that extrapolations from official data suggested that county councillors would be signing “the death warrant[s] of five people each year, every year” in the Kirkby area of Merseyside alone if they permitted the plans.But Peter Eaton, a speaker in support of the application, said that it was the “natural response” of residents in the vicinity to oppose the plan – because of the alarming material with which they had been presented.
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