Biggest
day of action ever against incineration
Manila/Berkeley/Geneva. 14 June 2003. More
than 200 groups from 62 countries today took action
against waste incineration to serve notice to their
governments that time is running out on the controversial
technology despite vigorous attempts by the incineration
industry to repackage their burners as renewable energy
or modern thermal systems for waste disposal.
"With
growing desperation to ensure the survival of their
dying industry, incinerator pushers are scrambling
to repackage and reinvent their technologies using
various forms of greenwashing including referring
to incinerators as clean, renewable energy sources
or claiming to have 'new' variations like pyrolysis
or gasification for the same old and discredited process,"
said Ann Leonard, Co-Coordinator of the Global Alliance
for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), which unites
over 375 groups and communities fighting to end wasting
and burning, from 77 countries.
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