On Easter Monday, 9th April 2012, the front page of The Times newspaper carried a story about the debate that's currently raging over whether the UK ought to be building more and bigger incinerators to burn our household rubbish.
Opponents of waste-to-energy incineration insist that it discourages recycling, adds to CO2 emissions at a time when we're trying to reduce them, and that incineration plants themselves are an ugly blot on the urban landscape.