Brighton & Hove council tax payers will be paying a very high price to have their waste taken away, not only financially, but through their health and the health of their families too.

Far and Wide
Small dust particles of PM2.5 microns and smaller will be spread in a three mile wide area around the city. That’s west approximately as far as Dyke Road, east as far as Wilson Avenue, north to beyond the golf course and south as far as the sea.

The weather will dictate who this dust will fall on. Building work on this project has already started and the levels of PM2.5s were measured, by the council, at more than 11 times the US safe limits. UK policy towards PM2.5s is about to change because the Department of the Environment says there is “no safe limit” for PM2.5s.

See the DEFRA report www.defra.gov.uk ols on the emission of them, see europa.eu

These particles can cause cancer, asthma, foetal abnormalities, heart attacks and many other diseases and ailments.
It also says that the main cause of PM2.5s is traffic, mainly diesel engines, not waste. This is of course true, but in order to handle our 110,000 tonnes of waste produced annually in B&H there will be 504 truck movements/day into the Hollingdean site in addition to at least 66 articulated 44-tonne lorries into and out of the dump.

Deliberately putting a facility that attracts this volume of heavy traffic to a central area of the town beside an Infants School beggars belief!

And That’s Just for Starters!
The Hollingdean dump is designed to handle 200,000 tonnes of waste annually, that means the company can, and most certainly will apply for permission to bring in waste from outside B&H in order to extract the maximum profits, bringing more pollution.

These monster lorries will carry compacted waste to the Newhaven incinerator, which will spread PM2.5s over a 15-mile radius, including most of B&H and Lewes and other parts of the county.

Safeguard your Health, write
Dump the Dump is writing to Brian Oxley, the leader of the Conservative council in the city, asking him to stop building work and to return the plans for the dump to the planning committee so that this new and important evidence can be re-evaluated.

You can help by writing to Mr Oxley too. Please tell him that you would like the council to re-evaluate the city’s plans for the dump because new evidence from DEFRA and the EU shows that it is a serious health hazard.

Please quote the links above that present the evidence. Please cite the council’s monitoring report that showed excessive levels of PM2.5s in June, the only independent monitoring of the Hollingdean dump.
Please write to Brian Oxley, c/o Kings House, Grand Avenue, Hove BN3 2LS.

Together we can beat thist old fashioned waste plan and develop a sensible modern approach..