WITH the increasing levels of climate change gases in the news it is important to look at how our waste is transported to its final destination.
Recent discussion in your paper has been centred on where and how waste is to be processed.
It is just as important not to clog up our roads with convoys of large lorries ferrying it around the county. This only adds to the congestion, pollution, global warming and accidents on our roads.
My proposal is that all waste is transported by either rail or water. This is not as far fetched as it might appear. There are already campaigns, as your readers know, to reopen Middlewich railway station and to improve and increase the use of our waterways. These proposals have huge environmental advantages as well as a host of other benefits.
Perhaps this is another area where public opinion could sway the argument.
The location of waste disposal sites should be determined by their accessibility to rail and water as much as local conditions.
This will add to the pressure to improve the canal and railway infrastructure, by creating a demand for their use that we all want.
PETER HIRST
Rushton Drive
Middlewich
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