POLITICAL allegiances were cast aside as more than 100 protesters joined forces in a final bid to prevent the building of the Kidderminster incinerator.
Wyre Forest prospective parliamentary candidates Dr Richard Taylor (Health Concern) and Mark Simpson (Conservative) joined sitting Labour MP David Lock to speak at Saturday's demonstration against the incinerator.
The proposed scheme would burn 150,000 tonnes of waste a year from across Worcestershire.
About 1,500 letters of objection have been written and 15,000 people have signed an anti-incinerator petition.
The protest outside Kidderminster Town Hall took place just 10 days before county council planners are due to decide whether the £40 million burner can be built at the British Sugar site in Stourport Road.
Mr Lock said: "We can't keep putting rubbish in holes in the ground, but this is not the right place for an incinerator.
"If the incinerator is approved I will be knocking at John Prescott's door to demand a public inquiry."
Conservative West Midlands MEP Philip Bushill-Matthews, who sits on the European Parliament's environment committee, also pledged his support to SKI members.
He said: "In Brussels we are finalising legislation to promote recycling rather than incineration.
"The county council must listen to the strength of feeling against the incinerator even if the Government doesn't."
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