Comments on: Quick questions http://votedaniel.wordpress.com Jersey election campaign 2008, Deputy of St. Mary Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:27:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: daniel wimberley http://votedaniel.wordpress.com/quick-questions/#comment-15 daniel wimberley Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:24:06 +0000 http://votedaniel.wordpress.com/?page_id=178#comment-15 Hello Mr. Green Pleased to read of your commitment to the environment. On "time is not on our side" see my response to Tony Bellows under "Big Mistakes" page A plant to handle what is left may sadly be a necessity, but I think we should set our target really high, bearing in mind true costs to the environment - of collection (different ways of doing this), of NOT recycling, and of any emissions. The real key is waste reduction, see my paragraph on this on the ENVIRONMENT page and the link there. On recycling, I have just read that "America is burying up to $1.83 billion worth of aluminium per year. Atkins estimates that there is now more aluminium in US landfills than can be produced from ores globally in one year." I think that gives an idea of the folly of present [policies and attitudes, and the size of the prize. Far far better to recycle than to dig up yet another mountain or forest somewhere far away that we don't see and do not have to suffer the consequences. Hello Mr. Green

Pleased to read of your commitment to the environment.

On “time is not on our side” see my response to Tony Bellows under “Big Mistakes” page

A plant to handle what is left may sadly be a necessity, but I think we should set our target really high, bearing in mind true costs to the environment – of collection (different ways of doing this), of NOT recycling, and of any emissions.

The real key is waste reduction, see my paragraph on this on the ENVIRONMENT page and the link there.

On recycling, I have just read that “America is burying up to $1.83 billion worth of aluminium per year. Atkins estimates that there is now more aluminium in US landfills than can be produced from ores globally in one year.”
I think that gives an idea of the folly of present [policies and attitudes, and the size of the prize. Far far better to recycle than to dig up yet another mountain or forest somewhere far away that we don’t see and do not have to suffer the consequences.

]]> By: Peter Green http://votedaniel.wordpress.com/quick-questions/#comment-9 Peter Green Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:04:49 +0000 http://votedaniel.wordpress.com/?page_id=178#comment-9 I am someone who whole heartedly believes in the enviroment and in particular what we can all do in our homes such as recycling and reducing our carbon footprint. I am curious to know however what you suggest we do with the waste we presently cannot recycle if we do not replace Bellozane asap. It is falling apart around us and it is enviromentally damaging because of its age. Time is not on our side on this one. We couldn't just magic all our rubbish away if Bellozane stopped tomorrow. Educating people to recycle is one thing but lets be realistic, 100% recycling will sadly never happen. At least hopefully having a new incinerator would save us from stock-piling hundreds of tons of rubbish which would be an absolute health hazzard. However much we care about our world, I cannot see a time that we won't be able to do without an incinerator or such like. We can only hope that modern day engineering etc can produce waste disposal plants that produce as clean as possible emissions . I am someone who whole heartedly believes in the enviroment and in particular what we can all do in our homes such as recycling and reducing our carbon footprint. I am curious to know however what you suggest we do with the waste we presently cannot recycle if we do not replace Bellozane asap. It is falling apart around us and it is enviromentally damaging because of its age. Time is not on our side on this one. We couldn’t just magic all our rubbish away if Bellozane stopped tomorrow. Educating people to recycle is one thing but lets be realistic, 100% recycling will sadly never happen. At least hopefully having a new incinerator would save us from stock-piling hundreds of tons of rubbish which would be an absolute health hazzard. However much we care about our world, I cannot see a time that we won’t be able to do without an incinerator or such like. We can only hope that modern day engineering etc can produce waste disposal plants that produce as clean as possible emissions .

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