Incinerator Climbing

There are plans afoot in Newcastle-upon-Tyne to expand a rubbish-burning incinerator from processing 25,000 tonnes of crap a year to 200,000 tonnes. People who live near the incinerator in Byker all hate the stench and dust which it spews out, so of course they weren’t asked about it. A local group, Campaign Against Incinerating Rubbish (CAIR) has been set up. To publicise the issue, on 20th October a group of people in white costumes climbed up onto a platform fifty feet up the incinerator, and unveiled large banners which read ‘Burning Rubbish Kills’. Others videoed the action, and those with local accents presented their case to the local media. Police were called and threatened people with breach of the peace, which just showed as usual that they don’t know what that means, and protesters happily ignored them. After a cold hour, joking about and doing a radio interview through a walkie-talkie, they did photo poses and then carefully descended, with no arrests.

Contact: CAIR or TAPP.