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To be released immediately: 30 March, 1999

HEATED DEBATE ON INCINERATION

The Community Recycling Network (CRN) is organising a public debate on incineration with energy recovery. The debate, entitled "The Burning Issue", will be chaired by Liverpool Councillor Richard Kemp. Keith Collins, a director of the London Recycling Consortium, will defend the proposition "This house believes that incineration has no place on Merseyside". Speaker against the motion will be Bill Prescott, Group Technical Director with Onyx Environmental.

The public debate will take place at Liverpool Town Hall on the 16th of April 1999. Doors will open at 6.30 pm.

The event is part of the Community Recycling Network's 10th Annual Conference at the University of Liverpool on the 16-18th of April 1999, sponsored by UK Waste.

The debate "The Burning Issue" is a free event, however places are limited and must be booked in advance. For more information and bookings, please contact the Community Recycling Network on 0117 942 0142.

Notes to the editor:

The Community Recycling Network is a national umbrella organisation representing over 250 community recycling and waste management projects throughout the UK.

CRN member organisations collectively provide recycling services to over 4.5 million people, 11,500 businesses and 2,000 schools and colleges. Members include local authority kerbside subcontractors, community composting schemes, collectors of commercial waste paper, scrapstores, furniture recyclers and waste minimisation and re-use projects.

The CRN's aim is to promote community recycling as a practical and effective way of tackling the UK's growing waste problem. Our members work together to promote sustainable waste management and continue to have a pioneering effect on the development of Local Agenda 21, whilst achieving some of the highest recycling rates in the UK.

CRN members in Liverpool include The Furniture Resource Centre and CREATE.

For more information, please contact Anna Maris, Publicity Officer on 0117 907 4107.

The Community Recycling Network, 10-12 Picton Street, Montpelier, Bristol BS6 5QA.

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