THE recent United Nations Environment Programme talks in Johannesburg, attended by representatives from 120 countries, has reached an accord to be signed in May, that prohibits or severely limits the production of several environmentally poisonous substances, including dioxins and furans, these last two being the products of combustion.

Since the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions was "particularly pleased" with the restrictions on the production of dioxins, and since incinerators produce large quantities of those carcinogenic chemicals, both in spent gases and solid waste, as a by-product from the burning of household waste, can we now expect to see an end to the one-sided and literally pre-ordained debate over the siting of an incinerator on the British Sugar site in Kidderminster?

AW JORDAN

Comberton Park Road

Kidderminster