THE campaigners opposed to the building of an incinerator in Oxfordshire are to be praised for their organisational abilities.

Despite holding a minority view, they have dominated the debate – not least through the letters page of this newspaper.

While we would all prefer to be surrounded by green pasture and greeted each morning by the sight of deer frollicking and bunnies hopping, we must accept we live in a highly urbanised corner of Europe – and we must all bear the consequences of producing too much waste.

If we are not to burn it, which is clean, safe and efficient, then what do they propose we do with it?

Would they rather we tipped it into bigger and deeper landfill sites? Or drag it to the coast and dump it at the bottom of the sea?

There is no 100 per cent green option – other than to use, and discard, less. I suspect the only solution they will settle for, however, is for their waste to be taken far from their lovely homes – where it can be burned, buried or sunk. Anything, as long as it doesn’t hit their house prices.

W TAYLOR Oxford