A proposed $4 million waste-to-energy incinerator, which would turn non-recyclable items into electricity, has residents at Ipswich, west of Brisbane, up in arms over concerns it will encourage people to create more waste, rather than recycle it.
Residents in Ipswich have vowed to continue fighting against a $400 million waste-to-energy incinerator that has been proposed for Swanbank at Ipswich, west of Brisbane.The proposed waste-to-energy plant would incinerate unrecyclable waste to create 50 megawatts of electricityQueensland recycles just 30 per cent of its waste
"Scientific data from around the world has shown that waste incineration is not good for human health and we oppose it very much for that reason," Mr Dodrill said."We believe it's time for other places to shoulder the burden and manage their own waste — we shouldn't have to be managing everybody else's waste.
Professor Bernadette McCabe, principal scientist at the University of Southern Queensland's Centre for Agricultural Engineering, said WTE technology was not as simple as "trucking in rubbish" and burning it. "The emphasis is on resource recovery in the first instance, and then energy recovery. This, I feel, is the important aspect that people need to understand."
"Internationally, experience tells us that when waste can't be prevented or recycled, recovering its energy is in most cases preferable to landfill," Professor McCabe said. "In the meantime, we [Australia] should be identifying those technologies which keep materials in use longer, and make them more mature, so that we can recover our resources at a higher value rather than by simply burning them," she said.
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