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A recent freedom of information request <\/a>submitted to West Midlands fire service reveals the shocking\u00a0figure that the recycling\u00a0industry, founded largely on a lie costs the taxpayer.<\/p>\n

A “lie” because recycling of paper, metal etc has in recent times been used to suggest that this generates substantial electricity for homes and thus everyone’s bills will somehow go down. They haven’t because they continue to rise\u00a0and they don’t because the only people racking in the money are the operators of these wretched fire hazard zones.<\/p>\n

There have been many instances in The West Midlands of massive scale fires occurring on these so called “recycling sites”,<\/a> and in\u00a0some cases the same charlatan operators having fires on multiple sites. Top of this list have to be EMR recycling<\/strong> who recover metal.<\/p>\n

A request that I looked at dealt with a news item put on the West Midlands Fire service website entitled “recycling boss praises our firefighters.”<\/a>\u00a0This was a piece concerning the aftermath of a recycling site fire at Trinity Street, adjacent to the major chemical hazard area at the Solvay factory.<\/a><\/p>\n

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This facility run by Weir Waste was passed by Sandwell council’s planning committee in 2010, and was on the site of the former Chance and Hunt works which later became ICI and then “rosier transport services”.<\/p>\n

“Some 200 tonnes of cardboard and plastics in a recycling plant were destroyed, and another 100 tonnes of baled plastics and cardboard stored outside were also involved.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Water for the incident was relayed via a High Volume Pumping Unit (HVPU) from a nearby canal.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Personally I don’t think this facility should exist, and I made that clear in my objection to that application at the time. Read the council’s delegated decision below.<\/p>\n

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A visit to this site after the fire incident revealed a “clean up” operation under progress. A wily patrol dog came up to me waging its tail before deciding to eat nearly one half of a loaf of bread that I had about my person. The ravenous canine obviously had the run of the street, and lives amongst the baled garbage and general rubbish stored there.<\/p>\n

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Trinity Street- The infamous Albright and Wilson clock tower, now Solvay in the distance<\/p><\/div>\n

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Pile of unsightly junk left from the fire<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another pile of unsightly junk<\/p><\/div>\n

But this fire- one of many in the\u00a0Oldbury area <\/a>in\u00a0recent history\u00a0and also the article raised some interesting questions about just how many of these major fire hazard sites had gone up in smoke, each time a major hazard to life and environmental health.<\/p>\n

“West Midlands Fire Service attended 21 incidents at waste sites in 2015\/16<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n