ABSTRACT
In July 2010, I was one of about fifty people who attended a meeting of my local council. We were there to show our opposition to the council’s plans to award a twenty-five-year contract to hand over management of the future municipal waste generated by residents in its own area and that of an adjacent local authority to a multinational company that intended to build a very large incinerator to burn much of this waste. Our presence was coordinated not by any large non-government organisations, although some (such as UKWIN and Friends of the Earth) had supported us with information and advice, but by our parish council and neighbours.
