ONCE again, I read about recycling. The national news this weekend states that councils across Britain are scrapping recycling plans as there has been a collapse in the market and they can not sell the waste.

This is all the more reason why we should be supporting the companies who want to alleviate the problem but cannot because of the voice of residents, the majority of whom do not live anywhere near the plants in question.

The following companies are Orchid at Dickinsons, which wants to install a plant which will make pellets to fuel power stations; Viridor at Raikes Lane, which wants to generate electricity; Armstrongs of Horwich which wants to generate electricity by using an existing plant, which will be cleaner.

Surely this all makes sense to you and I, but not the residents who don’t want them in their backyard as they say. They are bothered about extra traffic. They only need to look around them to see what has been built and where, and how much more traffic it has generated. They are still building houses next to a small industrial estate. They have also built quite a number of flats behind Station Road. Where do they think all that traffic is going?

As for the increased number of wagons from various places, they only have to look at the amount of traffic in Station Road and count the number of other traffic in relation to wagons. It is time to take off the blinkers.

This waste has to go somewhere and surely it is better it goes to being tuned to something useful rather than landfill. We are rapidly running out of landfill sites, then where is it going to go? It can’t be burnt because of the environment.

Let’s face it, waste is here to stay, the protesters are not and neither am I. We have to look to the future and the next generation who will have to deal with this. I hope they will think again and reconsider their view and not be led by other people.

M Holt

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