Waste policy needs public trust

THE Health Research Bureau (HRB) has reported that in order to “facilitate public debate on the issues of waste management policy and effects, a systematic programme of risk communication will be necessary.

This should concentrate on providing unbiased and trusted information to all participants (or stakeholders) in waste management issues. Public trust, whether it is placed in the regulators in compliance with the regulations or in the information provided, will be fundamental in achieving even a modicum of consensus for any future developments in waste”.

The Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche, has totally misrepresented what his own advisers, the HRB, have said in an effort to support an unsafe and outmoded technology - incineration.