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- filmoss - 23-Feb-2011
quote:
Originally posted by Peter Harris
The main issue to push with landfill is that the products of rubbish decomposition become hazardous substances as they decompose - really nasty ones that get worse. If you have surface smells it is because there is leakage of gas. The cap soil over the rubbish is supposed to provide a seal, as with a gas reservoir. If you can smell anything it is because it is not sealed. Companies that do this work want to extract the gas later for local power generation in engines, so any loss is not in their economic interests. The second issue is that whilst gases are formed, so are the hazardous liquids that result from decomposition, a really nasty group of materials that the design should have allowed for with a lower level membrane. If that leaks, you have the possibility of the leakage entering the water table and causing lots of other health problems, particularly if bore water is used nearby for agriculture or potable water. Sounds bad to me - You need someone with a bit of technical knowledge to fill the reporters head with conspiracy and health scare issues to get some action.
Pete, it isn't a landfill site its a supposed state of the art recycling centre all done in doors.
- filmoss - 23-Feb-2011
Get your name down for a free visit !! Not to be sniffed at [8D]
http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/northwest/manchester/renew-ley11.cfm
- filmoss - 23-Feb-2011
Heres the Leyland guardian story.
http://www.leylandguardian.co.uk/news/local/residents_fury_at_broken_promises_of_waste_firm_1_3105120
- noel - 23-Feb-2011
This is the place Peter.
http://www.globalrenewables.co.uk/content/townInfo.asp?pgID=1&townID=1&countyID=1
- Martin - 23-Feb-2011
And the Lancashire Evening Post article.
- noel - 23-Feb-2011
Well done Tim.
- Top Cat - 23-Feb-2011
I have just returned from Preston and used the Park and Ride from the Capitol Centre. On my return, stepping out of the bus at the C.C. I could immediately smell the Waste Plant, and the smell became stronger as I drove home, so it wasn't something else that I could smell. The Environment Agency have acknowledged that it has been smelled in Bamber Bridge, so those of you in that area, if you smell something horrible and stale and musty, the Waste Plant is where it is coming from. Details of whom to complain to are in my previous entry.
- noel - 23-Feb-2011
Does this mean the plant has a licence to carry on smelling despite the result of the meeting?
- filmoss - 23-Feb-2011
I could smell it today all the way to preston ! I put some petrol in my car at Morrisons on the docks and could still smell it there !! I then moved to Poulton St Ashton to pick up my daughter and she came out of her house pulling a face ! " Whats that smell " she enquired !! [xx(]
- cindy - 23-Feb-2011
Give over - you can't smell it in Preston or at the docks dont be soft! the smell is in your car. I was at the meeting on Monday and when we were asked how we wanted to be communicated with some bright spark said put it on the radio then another in the press. We moan about our house prices being devalued but putting this article in the press is making it worse! We are cutting our noses off to spite our faces. The plant wont devalue but our house prices will.