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Petition update, 11 January 2008

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Waste should not be incinerated. If rubbish is burnt fine particulates are absorbed directly into the blood stream via the lungs. Fine particles can harm health, especially if people already have breathing difficulties or lung disease. Fine particles have been linked to respiratory disease and premature death.

But that may not be the worst of it...

Dioxins and furans are some of the most toxic chemicals known to science. The major source of dioxin in the environment comes from waste-burning incinerators. In addition to cancer, exposure to dioxin can also cause severe reproductive and developmental problems. Dioxin is well-known for its ability to damage the immune system and interfere with hormonal systems. Dioxin exposure has been linked to birth defects, inability to maintain pregnancy, decreased fertility, reduced sperm counts, endometriosis, diabetes, learning disabilities, immune system suppression, lung problems, skin disorders, lowered testosterone levels and much more.

Current signatories

Martine Davis, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Liza Laws
• Chris Drewett
• Gary Alderson
• michael davis
• Edwood Walker
• Alasdair McCallum
• Dr.-Ing. Peter Wilson
• Rod Main
• Chris Chatwin
• Oliver Rooke
• Jon Beresford
• Dave Nail
• Ralph Anthony Ryder
• June Bacon
• Val Barton
• Ralph Barton
• Phil McKenzie
• Phil Butler
• Valerie Moffett
• Paul Roberts
• Jo Livingston
• Beth Hewis
• Janet Williams
• Dr Andrew Tubb
• Sue Blount
• steve tombs
• john adams
• Bryan norris
• Arnold Woolley
• Stephanie Shorey
• Susan findlay
• Sue Whitworth
• D Skrytek
• caroline morgan
• Trevor Rabey
• Karen Sillence
• Riki Kittel
• Julia Clarke
• Stephen Eades
• Miguel Mendonca
• Kaye Brennan
• Susan Reed
• Barbara Farmer
• Robert David Hill
• Christopher Baxter
• Margaret Atherton
• Duncan Bonner
• Dorothy Neal
• Olga Ruocco Daley
• Jayne Morgan
• robert vincent
• calli sheppard
• Joy Towles Ezell
• janice Alderson
• Paul Saoke
• Irene Drewett
• Damien Kirby
• Insitute of Science in Society
• Mark Broadhurst
• Barbara Paulus
• Nicholas Deere
• Jeannette James
• Suzanne Elson
• Graham Thompson
• Janice Harron
• Charmaine English
• Yvonne Osprey
• Simeon Adams
• Jayne Adams
• Julie Russ
• sarah Cohen
• Sandra Bryant
• David Reynolds
• Terry Jones
• Chris Schweizer
• Rob Sedgwick
• clare Leach
• Blue Leach
• Rebecca Sumner
• Miss D Ralph
• john stirk
• TIM CARR
• Ginny Smith
• Gem,ma Sims
• Rob Eastham
• Caroline Harris
• Brendan Brannigan
• bryan blount
• Rob Whittle
• John A C Beattie
• Michael A Smith
• Linda Mitchell
• Kevin Butler
• M von Ziegenweidt
• Linda Riseborough
• Tim East
• June Miller
• Emma Horsfall
• Brian Marshall
• Vanessa Shaw
• amanda harrison
• Gerald Boil
• Marilyn Boil
• Stephen Roberts
• Sally Layden
• Colin Balls
• Peter J Chandler
• Jean Cutmore
• Peter Grist
• Marilyn Grist
• Stephen Calver
• Kimberley Briscoe
• David Powles
• Darryl Hopkins
• Richard Balls
• Jill Burrage
• R King
• Matt Hockley
• Hereward Cooke
• Elaine Chapman
• Pat Gowen
• David Eckersley
• Derek MacLeod
• Geoff Hinchliffe
• Laurie Benfield
• Lynne Palmer
• Linda Vincent
• Ben Grange
• David Major
• B.R.Coman
• Graeme Mills
• Lee-Ann Williams
• Jeremy Hulbert
• Lynn Sims
• Marian Biley
• C M UPTON
• julian rea
• Louise Utting
• Caroline Miller
• Dave Shepherd
• Louise Arnold
• Naomi Canton
• MARION GOODWIN
• RAY GOODWIN
• Harry Brown
• Jamie Dunne
• rachel mcwatters
• lee mcwatters
• Derek Trollope
• GRAHAM HILDER
• Serena Catchpole
• Nicholas Charles
• Kathleen Walsh
• Carol Scott
• heloise saunders
• Juli Johnson
• Michael Young
• Marquis Holmstreau
• Martin York
• MARILYN DEWBERRY
• Roger Hull
• Ana Chavarri
• Claudio Kurschinski
• jennie hazlehurst
• david ireland
• Harry Kirby
• Bernd Eggen
• Gus Garside
• Chloe Cheeseman
• Karen Amsden
• Andrew Birkby
• Ian Elwick
• Simon Mercer
• Michael Jenkins
• Tom Mitchell
• Paul Cullen
• Helen Banks
• shlomo dowen
• Elizabeth Linley
• Duncan Houston
• Gemma Rattle
• J Shaw
• Claudio Kurschinski
• A Bostock
• Miriam Binder
• Michael Whelan
• David Noone
• Luisa Hillard
• Tom Mitchell Snr
• J Gordon
• Trevor Stevens
• Mrs J Rees
• Sue Cullen
• Julian Robert Pike
• Debra Lissaman
• Grace Everson
• Rose Powell
• KIRSTI GORMAN
• Keith Pogson
• Paul Frost
• James Greyson
• Lizzie Overton
• Steve Odell
• June Mary Laker
• JO Offer
• Lisa Meakin
• K Stephenson
• alison rice
• Michael Oldfield
• Paul Roberts
• J.L.Wilson
• Sally Anderson
• Valerie Moss
• Dr Gotthelf Wiedermann
• Sandra Madeline Dunn
• Joyce Sims
• Julia Fry
• Kirsty McKeown
• Carla Butler
• Sarah Waring
• Jamie Waring
• David Lindsay
• Nicky Blumfield
• Louise Bateman
• Richard Payne
• Rose Page
• Richard Gleed-Owen
• Tony Gray
• Stephen Marshall
• ally McGurk
• peter dean
• Sarah Urquhart
• Gillian Harris
• John Sweetingham
• Rosemary Goddard
• Jacob Harris
• christopher hamp
• Frances Collins
• David Carlile
• Maureen Saunders
• julie dann
• Pam Lymath
• annette dobb
• John Savery
• Susan Lee
• John C. Dearden
• Vivien Meekins
• Howarth Lee
• Jane Hayward
• Elizabeth Barendt
• Nikki Clarke
• Hazel Rudkin
• Patricia Degens
• Roger Meekins
• Jeanette Longfield
• jacqui Bradburn
• Anca Degens
• VIVIENNE SPIERS
• Liz Spreadbury
• Jane Temple
• Esther Burley
• margaret king
• Jason Jubert
• peter ambler
• rowena rudkin
• Stephen John Davis
• Donald C Macdonald
• Dorothy Scholes
• Paul King Fisher
• Mary Abbey
• Alice Massey
• J C Lucke
• Helen Bradley
• caroline kearl
• Liz Wombwell
• david griffiths
• Rob Hurd
• A Clarkson
• nichola bristow
• MickBull
• suzanne ashworth
• Lisette Passano
• chris oakshott
• tina black
• JANICE BUTLER
• John Cruickshank
• susan godby
• Greg Dunseath
• Clare Calvert
• Kate Lee
• Simon Smart
• Rodney Archard
• Belinda Crabbe
• Jan Marshall
• RAB Paterson
• Mary Lawley
• Michelle Connell
• Juidth Ost
• Ian Sandars
• James Turnbull
• Joy Leach
• Aubrey Claridge
• Emma Clothier
• kathy Dabson
• Kate Xavier
• Robert Watson
• John Rudkin
• Matthew Charlesworth
• Angela White
• Craig Pusey
• Nigel Jenkinson
• Rob Andrews
• Helena Epps
• James Mallinson
• Jason Manley
• Julie Taylor
• karen glasby
• Joanna Steed
• Chris Sampson
• Maria Eppel
• Sarah Pusey
• Christine East
• Helen Austin
• Paul Wheeler
• Benoit Terrier
• Lukasz Kowalczyk
• Kelvin Lillywhite
• Sally Plummer
• Megan Tansley
• Magda Haire
• Peter Andrews
• Richard Pain
• Virginia Bint
• Penny Baker
• Alan Dunne
• rohan wilson
• Kathryn Andrews
• Sandy Rowe
• Maria Isabella Crabb
• janet miller
• Elleanor Scott
• phil Scott
• Jan Nolan
• Jill Pollock
• Steven Spowart
• Deborah Hammond
• andrew eggleden
• Amy Brookbanks
• Sonia Frost
• Jacqueline Summer
• Giles Burley
• Brian Marshall
• James Frost
• James Holmstreau
• Martin York
• St.John Cholmondeley-Featherstonehaugh
• Mr MEECHING
• Paul Woodjetts
• Ann McEllin
• jackie coleman
• Christine Ellis
• Christy Crouch
• Teresa Mitchell
• Anne Elliott-Day
• claire Dugue
• Stephen Rainbird
• Tessa Milton
• LC Jackson
• Brigid Finlayson
• Carly Whitehouse
• David Kent
• Carole Jux
• Drummond Richardson
• Roger Balister
• Eur Ing Kenneth Spelman
• Mike Lowe
• anna serventi
• Jessica Townshend
• Major Gordon Smith
• Andrew Forsyth
• Ann Kiely
• Barbara Owen
• Rona Tyler
• Jon Crabtree
• Monica Delaney
• Sarah Stamford
• Juliet Hasslacher
• Adam Tyler
• stuart noble
• David Reid
• Jenny Holford
• Jonathan Guy
• Natania Goldrich
• Jo Carr
• david levy
• John Payne
• Clare Palgrave
• Stephen Forrest
• Helen Smith
• Megan Smith
• Ruth Savery
• Amanda Geary
• Richard Olive
• Janet Parsons
• Alison Bate
• Matt Parkinson
• Jana Mills
• Dino Adriano
• Tamara Pearce
• Phil Watts
• Iain Murdoch
• amanda routledge
• Estelle POst
• Katherine Schnuppe
• Jason Day
• Tom Sherriff
• Colin Cabral
• paul maloney
• joanie willett
• andy knight
• Richards Simmonds
• paula ashby
• Douglas Cattermole
• Jane Bunn
• Paul Hughes
• R Mallinson
• Tracy Herbert
• Faye McSawicz
• Faye Moreton-Barker
• D. Barton
• dave hurst
• Philip Kemp
• Alan Thomas
• Jane Dalgleish
• Peter Trend
• Paul Ungoed
• Julie Harding
• Phillip Le Mottee
• John Freeman
• Paula Baguley-Hems
• Rebekah Birse-Johnson
• Georgina Tracey
• andrew leatherbarrow
• Duncan Rodd
• Minette Smith
• Warren Blinston
• Barbara Curtis
• Philip Glover (this is to comply with EU laws on landfil, leave EU)
• Peta Rackett
• Dr Caroline Lucas MEP
• Alex Murray
• Rosemary Dixon
• Sean Lee
• edward frank plant
• N Ubhi
• Wendy Dixon
• Margaret King
• Julia Rose
• Antonia Thompson
• helene Rinaldo
• Deborah Dawes
• Soledad Guarch
• Mark Thomas
• Joëlle van Tinteren
• Ben Lang
• Marc Wood
• Shelly Skrynnyk
• Phil Rowe
• haydn john latham
• Rupert Jackson
• mariyam karolia
• Simon Watt BSc AMInstP
• Paul Janik, Slough Party
• Richard Creer
• David Kerr
• Deirdre Moyles
• Jo Tidy
• annette tidy
• Chris Dell
• Phil Wakeman
• margaret hill
• L Daly
• Faye Pritchard
• Janice A Morton
• Roderick G Whyte
• Michael Taylor
• Janka Hanicova
• Gemma Bannister
• peter lambden
• Tom Tamplin
• Julian Powell
• Hannah Cooper
• M.Turpin
• Dino Adriano
• Claire Webster
• So what do you propose happens to the rubbish then?