“It's worked !! ... they have managed to get you to argue against each other as to where the site should be, with people supporting applications outside of their area.
We should all be working together to stop the proposal altogether. It's not environmentally friendly - Reducing packaging and recycling is much better and offers more employment opportunities.
Health risks of incinerator gases are still largely unknown - smoking used to be good for you and if it's so safe why are the smoke stacks so high?
Incinerating the waste seems a cheap and easy answer, but you get what you pay for and eventually our children will pay for what we get!”

“It does not matter where they put it - a nimby with a whimsical grasp of physics and science will try and state a case against it.
Look at Efford..they are all into wildlife now... apparently.”

“If you lot had an IQ
They could NUKE plymouth
£40 Damage”

“Pilgrim Pete needs to re-sit his science a level and understand the what will realy comes out the two stacks of this mass burn incinerator mixed then with the 4million tone of co2 per year from the new power station .This will fall on an area of 10k around the incinerator along with sulphur dioxide pm 2.5 volatile organic compounds hydrogen chloride mercury cadmium chromium arsenic thallium and furans all of which pass into the environment including the river yealm which flows down into the yealm estuary and wembury bay so carol of plymstock you may think twice before you take your kids to your local beach and as for power generation this the second most polluting form of energy production after coal.”

“It is good to use waste to produce power but why an incinerator and not an anerobic generator? That would be much more sensible and less polluting.”

“So Carol, a well thought out proposal is to put an extra 150 i repeat 150 lorries per day travelling up and down the A38 death trap that this road has become. Let's open a new slip road when we have had slip roads closed due to fatalities on this road. This really makes sense.
Rather than your unfounded rant against the people of Ivybridge let's look at why you think this is ideal when you haven't heard the other options being proposed. Now if some plans had been put forward that the site would be served by a rail link in enclosed containers rather than increasing road traffic, polution and accidents then there might be some merit in it. How can it be viable to put 150 trucks per day on this two lane carriageway heavily laden and slow moving? Only a stone's throw away from Chelson Meadow is the main rail line. Material could be sent by rail (build a new Iron Bridge next to the existing one) and link to the main line. Perhaps a better and much shorter journey would be by rail into Ernesettle or the dockyard where by the way facilities and industrial estates are nearby as well.
So take a look at the whole picture rather than the blinkered view you have!”

“So, how exactly is such a waste incinerator going to encourage the public and commerce to reduce prouducing so called "waste" and "rubbish" in the first place?

If we all took more time, care and effort we can all dramatically reduce the "waste" we produce and starve such incinerators of such fuel! Incineration is short-sighted and wasteful.”

“"The incinerator, designed by architect David Butterworth to echo the hills of Dartmoor, would be built next to the quarry. " Oh, sounds lovely ! Can't wait to see such a romantic vision, oil on canvas, perhaps with a sprinkling of purple heather and long horn cattle to complete a future portrait.”

“What an excellent and well-thought out proposal by Viridor. We get rid of our waste (we make it so we should be responsible for it). We can produce energy locally - so much generated power is lost being sent down long transmission lines. We majorly need to reduce/stop landfill - this will. It will provide local jobs. Emissions are more tightly controlled than nearly another source (esp. cars, trains, aircraft, bonfires). And it's much less of an eyesore than a mass of wind turbines (will not kill birds either). It also beats turbines be being a predictable steady energy supplier, to feed the 'base load' rather than wind or solar which varies. I would happily live near one - it'll be safer than the fumes emitted by 99% of other manufacturing factories. I understand NIMBY objections but dismiss this people unless they have the conviction to live without the energy such a plant would produce. They seem to always be saying 'I'm too good to have this near my house - let some other poor person have it near them - but I will still have all the benefits of the electric. Selfish, shallow thinking. Good luck and I hope this proposal is green lighted ASAP.”

“Finally, someone is talking sense, it is an ideal location, there are already industrial sites etc in the area, it is central to South Devon and Plymouth. Regardless as to whether it should be in the other locations, Lee mill is ideal. It already has a quarry and industrial estates, and Viridor are thinking about the people of Lee Mill by putting in a new access road.

What a surprise that the residents of Ivybridge don't want it, these are the same people that were against Tesco being built and yet most of them probably use it on a regular basis.

It doesn't matter where it goes, everyone will benefit from the power being created or are the people who are so opposed to it prepared to go back to candles and generators?

Good luck to Viridor, I hope they get it and congratulations on a good and thought out proposal.”