{"id":42525,"date":"2025-08-04T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42525\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:13:08","slug":"rivenhall-incinerator-begins-burning-countys-household-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42525\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivenhall incinerator begins burning county&#8217;s household waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gareth Jones, of Indaver, said harmful emissions would be minimised using processes to capture acid gases, heavy metals and dioxins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that there would be no smell coming from the chimney &#8220;because the smells are caused by any organics, and they&#8217;re all destroyed by the incinerator&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Any potential smells might come from the waste as it was being delivered, Mr Jones said, adding that the rest of the facility &#8220;is under negative pressure&#8221;, drawing air into the incinerator and not releasing odours into the countryside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also addressed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c05eg6993z9o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">residents&#8217; concerns<\/a> about the impact of more than 400 lorry movements a day on the roads, especially on the A120, which has the site&#8217;s only available entrance for lorries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All of that waste is already on the road going somewhere else, so we&#8217;re not adding extra traffic to the road network,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even with that total amount of trucks on the A120, that&#8217;s only 2% of the volume of the traffic already on the A120, so it&#8217;s not a significant increase.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gareth Jones, of Indaver, said harmful emissions would be minimised using processes to capture acid gases, heavy metals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-42525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}