Incinerators

Incinerators - In the European Union’s new member states, where existing landfill sites are filling up fast, there is increasing pressure for the building of waste incinerators.

In Poland, the right wing government’s programme of building incinerators, strongly criticised by the Green party, could swallow up over 50% of the funds assigned for large scale waste management projects planned for 2007 - 2013. In the European Parliament, the Greens oppose the right-wing neoliberal programme of “free flow” of waste to be landfilled or incinerated within the EU, as well as the export of waste to less wealthy countries outside of the EU.

The European Greens believe that the problem of waste management must be solved as close to source as possible. We must not “donate” landfill sites and incineration plants to the less wealthy countries of Europe or to the rest of the world.