Late Sunday afternoon saw the industrial plant at Clifton explode into flames, just as another one did a year ago in Ordsall (unless it's this same one?). Either the plastic is self combustable or someone is being careless with matches? The industrial park is home to businesses including waste management and recycling company Roydon Group and social welfare charity Recycling Lives.
Luckily no-one was hurt although the repercussions of us all breathing in poison for days to come means there could yet be casualties. Toxic fumes plumed all over the area and goodness knows how much plastic burned.
Another reminder that the plastics industry needs to rethink and we all need to use far less of this stuff... My blurry snapshot is taken from seven miles away.
And before that there was the one in Bredbury.
ReplyDeleteA fire like that, you'll see the smoke from a long, long way off.
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