It's great that ACCIONA promotes emission reduction targets and is working to reduce greenhouse gases by avoiding the use of external fossil-based energy, prioritising resource reduction, and using renewable and recycled materials with a view to ‘giving new life to waste’. These goals are vital to slowing climate and ecological system breakdown.However, ACCIONA’s active bid to build an incinerator in North London runs completely against these goals. The project undercuts ‘sustainable regeneration’, since incinerators permanently destroy materials, releasing greenhouse gases and toxic emissions into the atmosphere, and perpetuating the extraction and use of virgin materials. The expansion of incineration in the UK would lead to a tripling of CO2 emissions from incineration. The Edmonton incinerator, if built, would account for a significant proportion of these emissions. And more and more scientific evidence links long-term exposure to air pollution with a greater risk of serious medical conditions and premature death, including from infectious diseases. The list of arguments goes on. Do the right ACCIONA, pull out of building this incinerator NOW!DON'T BUILD THE EDMONTON INCINERATOR!
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