What a load of rubbish

Cornwall Council says today that the United Downs landfill site at Carharrick, near Redruth, may be kept open after all - despite promising for years to close it. Everyone agrees that more recycling would help, although for Cornwall this means transporting waste huge distances. Expert scientific opinion says the "least worst" option is incineration - it works well on the Isles of Scilly, where the political dithering was resolved more than a decade ago. But what's the betting that self-styled "environmental" campaigners (a bunch of middle-class NIMBYs) will remain happy to dump on one of the poorest and least powerful communities in Cornwall?