Greenpeace toxics and incinerator campaigner Miranda Holmes will be the special guest at a free Friends of the Earth recycling seminar next week.
The 'Residues? What Residues?' event takes place at the Quaker Meeting House in Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, from 2-5.30pm on February 28.
Chelmsford borough councillor Graham Pooley and Sandon parish chairman Neville Jessop will be looking at how Essex can aim to zero its waste mountain and avoid incineration.
Miranda Holmes' talk looks at how a Newsnight BBC TV programme last November exposed the Environment Agency for permitting highly toxic dioxin-contaminated incinerator ash from the Edmonton incinerator to be used for many years as 'inert' landfill cover at Pitsea until 1998.
The ash contained dangerous levels of heavy metals - lead, mercury and cadmium - which was recycled into house bricks, car parks and road building.
Despite a Government pledge for an inquiry, nothing has been done with the contaminated ash, a huge pile of which is still left near Dagenham market.
To book a free place or find out more about the agenda, phone Paula Whitney on 01206 383123.
Published Tuesday February 19, 2002
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