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Mersey councils to dump their rubbish in Wrexham. Protest now!

VG | 21.08.2006 21:34 | Ecology | Liverpool

Waste from five Merseyside authority areas: Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helen's, Sefton and Wirral is to be dumped at a Wrexham landfill site, part of which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and home to great crested newts. Local residents have been campaigning for years against the plans, but dumping looks set to go ahead from Wednesday. Solidarity actions needed.

If you live in Liverpool City, Knowsley, St Helen’s, Sefton or Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council areas, you might like to contact your council representative on Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority, whose “arms length” company Mersey Waste Holdings is just about to dump YOUR rubbish in Hafod Quarry, Johnstown, near Wrexham. The dumping looks set to start on Wednesday this week. Useful councillor contact details below. For anyone who’d like to pop over to Wales and see for themselves what’s going on, then the nearest station is Ruabon on the Chester to Shrewsbury line. Actions in solidarity with the unlucky people who live near the quarry would be much appreciated.

Johnstown residents have been campaigning for years via legal channels to stop this happening, but have been let down by their local council, by the government and by Europe. Local councillors in Wrexham have received notification this evening that the Environment Agency is approving landfill at the site to start this week. The EA is satisfied that filling an old quarry with Merseyside’s rubbish won’t have an undue adverse environmental impact. Yeah, right.

There is already one landfill site nearby, and residents are adamant that they will not accept another, with the associated traffic, noise, smell, pollution it will undoubtedly bring. The nearest houses are just 150 metres away. What’s more, part of the site is a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest), being home to great crested newts.

So why has Wales been chosen as the place to dump Merseyside’s waste? It’s only a year since an official apology was made to Wales for the flooding of Tryweryn in 1965 to provide water to the people of Merseyside. But Wales is just too convenient a dumping ground to pass up, especially now Westminster sets limits on waste tipping in England. A helpful loophole in this directive allows councils to export their landfill to Wales without fear of penalty. We have to stop this from happening. Another apology for Wales 40 years from now is simply not acceptable.

The Mersey Waste Disposal Authority web site,

http://www.merseysidewda.gov.uk/, describes Mersey Waste Holdings Group like this: “The emphasis is very much on recycling and re-use and the group has established a ‘recycling fund’ which is used to the benefit of the local community – including sponsoring local environmental initiatives. Each year the group sponsors up to five students from Merseyside to study environmental related degrees at Liverpool John Moores University.” Perhaps one of these students might like to study the effect of landfill on a community of great crested newts.

If you’d like to contact Mersey Waste Holdings, their address is 2nd Floor, Port of Liverpool Building, Liverpool, L3 1BY. Tel: 0151 255 0044, Fax: 0151 255 0019 Email:

enquiries@merseywaste.co.uk.

While you’re at it, I’m sure that your elected representatives who sit on the MWDA board would like to hear your views about this. Here are their contact details:

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Councillor Bob Swann (Deputy Chairman)
Tel: 0151 487 8974
Email:

bob.swann@knowsley.gov.uk

Liverpool City Council
Councillor Paula Keaveney
Tel: 0151 494 0341
Email:

paula.keaveney@liverpool.gov.uk
Councillor Nick Small
Tel: 0151 225 2366
Email:

nick.small@liverpool.gov.uk
Councillor Berni Turner
Tel: 0151 225 2352
Email:

berni.turner@liverpool.gov.uk

St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council
Councillor Dave Crowther
Tel: 01925 290 232
Email:

CllrDCrowther@sthelens.gov.uk

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Councillor D Tattersall
Tel: 01704 225877
Email:

david@tattersall95.freeserve.co.uk
Councillor K Cluskey (Chairman)
Tel: 0151 920 3704
Email:

kevin.cluskey@sefton.gov.uk

Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Councillor J Salter
Tel: 0151 638 1364
Email:

johnsalter@wirral.gov.uk
Councillor S Moseley
Tel: 07785 182536
Email:

suzannemoseley@wirral.gov.uk

Additions

Protest at Hafod quarry

27.08.2006 13:09

Local councillors have called for a mass blockade at the entrance to the Hafod quarry site this Wednesday (1 Sept) between 7-9am.

seren
Homepage: http://seren.blogspirit.com

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Hafod Quarry Landfill

11.09.2006 13:23

Whilst I appreciate all the interest in the dumping at Hafod Quarry Landfill Site it would be nice if you said that it was in Ruabon Parish adjacent to Johnstown, Wrexham.

99% of all reports that I have read so far site the address as Johnstown when it is in fact in Ruabon, Wrexham

Regards,

J. Andrew

J.Andrew
mail e-mail: nobaur01@tiscali.co.uk

appologies from someone in merseyside

18.03.2008 16:33

Wales is a fantastic country and this has to stop, i would like to appologies as a scoucer for tipping my rubbish in Wales. I know MWDA have built a plant to turn our rubbish into fuel pelletts but as yet this is not operational.

I run a WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) recycling company in Knowsley, Liverpool and am trying to win business to recycle for our region, EU reckons 4 kg of WEEE per houshold and is set to rise next year, so on Merseyside i rekon 2.5 million tonnes.

I hope none of this stuff below ends up in Ruabon.

WEEE waste

We are licenced by the Environment Agency Licence No EAWML 54485

We recycle the following:

MIXED WEEE

VACCUUM CLEANERS
CARPET SWEEPERS
OTHER APPLIANCES FOR CLEANING
APPLIANCES USED FOR SOWING,KNITTING,WEAVING AND OTHER PROCESSING FOR TEXTILES
IRONS AND OTHER APPLIANCES FOR IRONING,MANGLING AND OTHER CARE OF CLOTHING
TOASTERSD
GRINDERS AND EQUIPMENT FOR OPENING OR SEALING CONTAINERS OR PACKAGING
COFFEE MACHINES
ELECTRIC KNIVES
APPLIANCES FOR HAIR CUTTING,HAIR DRYING,TOOTH BRUSHING,SHAVING,MASSAGE,AND OTHER BODY CARE APPLIANCES
CLOCKS
WATCHES
SCALES

IT AND TELECOMS EQUIPMENT

MAINFRAME
MINICOMPUTERS
PRINTER UNITS
COPYING EQUIPMENT
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITERS
FACSIMILE
TELEPHONES
TELEX
PAY PHONES
CORDLESS PHONES
CELLULAR PHONES
ANSWERING MACHINES
POCKET AND DESKTOP CALCULATORS
LAPTOPS
CPU'S
OTHER PRODUCTS AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE COLLECTION,STORAGE,PROCESSING,PRESENTATION OR COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION BY ELECTRONIC MEANS
OTHER PRODUCTS OR EQUIPMENT OF TRANSMITTING SOUND,IMAGES OR OTHER INFORMATION BY TELECOMMUNICATION

CONSUMER GOODS

RADIO SETS
VIDEO CAMERAS
VIDEO RECORDERS
HI-FI RECORDERS
AUDIO AMPLIFIERS
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
OTHER PRODUCTS OR EQUIPMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECORDING OR REPRODUCING SOUND OR IMAGES, INCLUDING SIGNALS OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOUND AND IMAGE THAN BY TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

LIGHTING EQUIPMENT(EX GAS DISCHARGE LAMPS)

LUMINAIRES FOR FLUORESCENT LAMPS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LUMIARIES IN HOUSHOLDS
STRAIGHT FLOREESCENT LAMPS
COMPACT FLORESCENT LAMPS
OTHER LIGHTING EQUIPMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF SPREADING OR CONTROLLING LIGHT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FILAMENT BULBS

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC TOOLS(WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LARGE SCALE STATIONARY INDUSTRIAL TOOLS)

DRILLS
SAWS
SEWING MACHINES
TOOLS FOR RIVETING,NAILING OR SCREWING OR REMOVING RIVETS,NAILS,SCREWS OR SIMILAR
TOOLS FOR WELDING,SOLDERING OR SIMILAR
TOOLS FOR MOWING OR OTHER GARDENING ACTIVITIES
EQUIPMENT FOR SPRAYING,SPREADING,DISPERSING OR OTHER TREATMENT OF LIQUID OR GASEOUS SUBSTANCES BY OTHER MEANS
EQUIPMENT FOR TURNING,MILLING,SANDING,GRINDING,SAWING,CUTTING,SHEARING,DRILLING,MAKING HOLES,PUNCHING,FOLDING,BENDING OR SIMILAR PROCESSING OF WOOD,METAL AND OTHER MATERIALS

TOYS, LEISURE AND SPORTS EQUIPMENT

ELECTRIC TRAINS OR CAR RACING SETS
HAND HELD VIDEO GAME CONSOLES
VIDEO GAMES
COMPUTERS FOR BIKING,DIVING,RUNNING OR ROWING
SPORTS EQUIPMENT WITH ELECTTRIC OR ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

MONITERING AND CONTROL EQUIPMENT

SMOKE DETECTORS
HEATING REGULATORS
THERMOSTATS
MEASURING AND WEIGHING OR ADJUSTING APPLIANCES FOR HOUSEHOLD OR LABORATOR EQUIPMENT
OTHER MONITORING AND CONTROL INSTRUMENTS USED IN INDUSTRIAL INSTALLATIONS(FOR EXAMPLE, IN CONTROL PANELS)

AUTOMATIC DISPENSERS FOR HOT DRINKS

AUTOMATIC DISPENSERS FOR HOT DRINKS
AUTOMATIC DISPENSERS FOR HOT OR COLD BOTTLES OR CANS
AUTOMATIC DISPENSERS FOR SOLID PRODUCTS
AUTOMATIC DISPENSERS FOR MONEY
ALL APPLIANCES WHICH DELIVER AUTOMATICALLY ALL KIND OF PRODUCTS

DISPLAY EQUIPMENT

COMPUTER MONITORS

TV SETS CONTAINING CATHODE RAY TUBES

COOLING APPLIANCES

LARGE COOLING APPLIANCES
REFRIGERATORS
FREEZERS
OTHER LARGE APPLIANCES USED TO REFRGERATION, CONSERVATION AND STORAGE OF FOOD

LARGE HOUSHOLD APPLIANCES OTHER THAN REFRIGERATION

WASHING MACHINES
CLOTHES DRYERS
DISH WASHING MACHINES
COOKING
ELECTRIC STOVES
OTHER LARGE APPLIANCES USED FOR COOKING AND OTHER PROCESSING OF FOOD
ELECTRIC HOT PLATES
MICROWAVES
ELECTRIC HEATING APPLIANCES
ELECTRIC RADIATORS
OTHER LARGE APPLIANCES FOR HEATING ROOMS,BEDS,SEATING FURNITURE
ELECTRIC FANS
AIR CONDITIONING APPLIANCES
OTHER FANNING,EXHAUST VENTILATION AND CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT

GAS DISCHARGE LAMPS

HIGH INTENSITY DISCHARGE LAMPS INCLUDING PRESSURE SODIUM LAMPS AND METAL HALIDE LAMPS
LOW PRESSURE SODIUM LAMPS

THIS COVERS ALL 10 CATAGORIES OF WEEE.

MIKE LOW
RE-CYCLERS ORGANISATION
GARDEN WORKS
CHARLEY WOOD RD
KNOWSLEY INDUSTRIAL PK
LIVERPOOL
L33 7SG

TEL 0151 548 1550
FAX 0151 486 7237

michael low
mail e-mail: mike@re-cyclers.com
Homepage: http://www.re-cyclers.com

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