CLIMATE activists have blocked the entrance to an incinerator site in Aberdeen in a bid to draw attention to the pollution caused by the facility.
Around 100 activists from Climate Camp Scotland formed a picket-line at the incinerator located in East Tullos Industrial Estate near Torry, preventing waste trucks from entering the site, at around 7am on Saturday morning.They said the site, which has been operational since 2023, pollutes the air with particles which can cause respiratory and cardiovascular illness.
It is used by Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council and Moray Council and was welcomed as a"modern and more environmentally friendly solution" to landfill. "This incinerator is a grotesque building, squatting in our community like a great cockroach, and converting non-renewable natural resources into toxic ash and carbon dioxide," said Ishbel Shand, a Torry resident and campaigner for Friends of St Fittick's Park."It is a malign symbol of the rampant consumerism that is destroying our planet.gave her support to the protest, adding that the industrial area of Torry had been forced to shoulder the impacts of heavy industries.
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