Residents' concern over recycling centre plan

3:10pm Friday 22nd March 2013 in News Photograph of the Author By Ben Endley, Senior reporter

The owner of a Carpenders Park recycling business says he wants to prove to residents that he is a good neighbour.

Dean Beeton, owner of Any Skips Ltd, is currently applying for retrospective permission to open a recycling centre in Oxhey Lane.

The centre would handle around 5,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste per year but residents have voiced concerns about additional lorry journeys and burning waste.

Mr Beeton said he would only be acting in accordance with the terms of the licence: "I am not here to cause people headaches.

"This has been industrial land for a long time. It is not us building something surrounded by homes.

"There are less lorries now than there used to be years ago.

"We are providing a service and we are providing some work."

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OAC Bailiff says...
3:31pm Fri 22 Mar 13

good luck after all your recycling which means its more good than harm and jobs

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LSC says...
3:36pm Sat 23 Mar 13

I'd like to hear more about the actual recycling. Setting fire to rubbish isn't quite the same thing in my understanding of the word.
I could do the same in my back garden and that would mean less huge Diesel engines belching fumes into the atmosphere.
What, and how, does this place recycle? What happens the the materials once this place has processed it?

If, as I suspect they are compacted and then sent by lorry and container ship to China where they are re-manufactured in a factory that follows no eco-friendly laws, fed by a power station that also follows no eco-friendly laws, then sent back to the UK in a container ship nicely packaged up in new plastic, then I for one, question the true gain to the planet.

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Stacey_Blair says...
6:23pm Sat 23 Mar 13

The article says that residents have expressed concerns about burning waste, not that the recycling plant plans to burn anything there.

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LSC says...
10:10pm Sat 23 Mar 13

Stacey_Blair wrote:
The article says that residents have expressed concerns about burning waste, not that the recycling plant plans to burn anything there.
Well, obviously they do, otherwise why would there be concern?
If the article read 'Residents are concerned about a thermo-nuclear explosion', then I'd have some doubts about their fears.
But so-called recycling centres frequently just burn the flammable stuff, after charging a premium because of disposing of stuff in a 'green' manner.

Which they rarely do.

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