It is reported that Redditch Borough Council is thinking of diverting waste heat generated by a crematorium in Worcestershire to heating a local swimming pool.
This would, apparently, save £14,000 a year in pool heating costs and seems to me an eminently sensible proposal to me particularly as the heat generated by the crematorium is lost to the atmosphere.
On the one hand, the council have recognised that the issue could be a sensitive one and, after public consultation, it will be debating it on 7 February. On the other hand, crematorium workers’ union, Unison, have branded the proposal as, ‘sick and an insult to local residents’.
It’s an interesting juxtaposition of views. Which is more sick: the energy provided by, what is - let’s face it! - a waste facility, which is vented to the atmosphere, or the expenditure on heating a pool where energy is otherwise freely available?
No pun intended - but more power to Redditch Borough Council!
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This would, apparently, save £14,000 a year in pool heating costs and seems to me an eminently sensible proposal to me particularly as the heat generated by the crematorium is lost to the atmosphere.
On the one hand, the council have recognised that the issue could be a sensitive one and, after public consultation, it will be debating it on 7 February. On the other hand, crematorium workers’ union, Unison, have branded the proposal as, ‘sick and an insult to local residents’.
It’s an interesting juxtaposition of views. Which is more sick: the energy provided by, what is - let’s face it! - a waste facility, which is vented to the atmosphere, or the expenditure on heating a pool where energy is otherwise freely available?
No pun intended - but more power to Redditch Borough Council!
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