EMISSIONS from Plymouth's giant incinerator are the highest ever recorded in a UK residential area, new data has revealed.
Plume Plotter - a site which plots incinerator pollution - has released graphics which show high concentrations of nitrogen oxide near the incinerator in Barne Barton, St Budeaux and Devonport.
But the site, developed by a Gloucestershire resident who wanted to get an objective idea about the everyday effects of a local incinerator on air quality, also showed pollution being spread as far away as Cornwall and Dartmoor.In general, the worst pollution is quite close to the incinerator but, in the case of Plymouth, the city is quite densely populated and the emissions seem to affect a lot of people - even in Roborough, Bickleigh and Southway outside area of the city