SIR – You report that through the proposed Marley complex, recycled waste at the site (pictured) will be used to produce 90 per cent of Keighley’s electricity needs.
It could be, therefore, that waste will become a valuable commodity, for additional waste-based energy-producing facilities are likely to be built rather than despoiling the countryside with inefficient foreign-built windmills.
Perhaps Bradford Council should anticipate this now by welcoming, or even buying in waste from all and sundry, which in the short term, could be sold on to current European waste/power facilities.
This could be an end to fly tipping, make cleaning up our cities and countryside a profitable enterprise and free superfluous landfill sites for affordable council housing.
It just needs looking outside the box of vested interest.
John Pashley, Westcliffe Avenue, Baildon
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