Landfill Effects: Landfill Affects You!
Some of the reasons to stop the landfill proposal for the Ashdown Brickworks site.
This was the dramatic scene one lunchtime in August 2006 as a 12 wheel truck turned over on a major road (in Little Common) and hurled most of its 44 tonnes of waste into a pretty front garden.
Righting the lorry took nearly three hours, during which time the road was closed, and clearing up the rubbish was not completed until nearly 10pm that day.
Pictures used with kind permission of the Bexhill Observer.
We wish we could be more positive about a landfill site, but there is nothing to commend such a plan.
It is not about "not in my backyard". We are saying "not in anyone's back yard". Our recycling and bio-degradable policy is abysmal and regarded as one of the most regressive in Europe. Putting rubbish in the ground will be banned after 2020 - so let's fight now to stop refuse from the whole of Sussex being sent to our lovely town.
Social, Economic and Environmental impacts of landfill and landraise proposal at Ashdown Brickworks, Turkey Road, Bexhill.
Social
- The stigma associated with living nearby to a landfill site
- Subjective feelings in the community about fears relating to landfill sites
- Social fears relating to possible drop in property values in landfill proximity
- Loss of enjoyment of gardens and visual amenity
- Immediate proximity to housing contravenes Human Rights, Safety and Public Health standards
Economic
- Possible drop in property markets in close proximity
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Higher costs of environmental clean up and/ or abatements
- Possible higher costs of water treatment and supply
- Possible higher costs of road maintenance and cleanup
Environmental
- Traffic
- Increase of traffic flow with possible safety issues for residents, particularly the elderly and children, adverse impact on housing
- Mud on the roads with possible traffic hazards
- Risk of air pollution from traffic fumes
- Noise
- Increase of noise pollution from general activities related to landfill, including traffic to and from the waste site and reversing trucks within the site
- Dust
- Dust creation due to higher level of local transport of incoming waste
- Dust creation due to land filling and capping activity
- Pollution
- Litter spreading on roads, trees and the natural environment
- Risk of surface water pollution due to litter spread and/ or solid wastes escapes
- risk of surface water pollution due to landfill leachate (liquid wastes) escaping
- Risk of groundwater pollution due to leachate leakage into any strata or aquifer
- Risk of air pollution from escaping methane due to waste decomposition
- Odours
- Risk of air pollution from escaping odours from landfilling activity
- Safety
- Risk of hazardous wastes entering the site without the authorities' permission
- Risk of fires or explosions a more advanced (older) landfills due to methane escape
- Effect on wildlife habitat
- Risk of ingestion of waste materials by local animals in neighbouring habitats
- Risk to neighbouring wildlife habitat and Sites of Nature Conservation Importance and Sites of Special Scientific Interest
- Vermin, foxes, seagulls and crows
- Risk of accumulation of vermin, foxes, seagulls and crows causing pollution, nuisance and a risk to local wildlife and birds.
