Waste Recycling Group (WRG) wants to build the plant on behalf of both Hull and East Riding Councils at Salt End.

But local Conservative MP Graham Stuart has started the Holderness Opposing the Incinerator group and has called a public meeting for Saturday.

Mr Stuart said residents of Salt End already had enough industrial pollution to put up with.

WRG said the site on reclaimed land near the BP Chemicals works and King George Dock had been chosen from a list of 100 potential places.

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It straddles the boundary between Hull and the East Riding so the planning committees of both councils will have to give permission.

If planning councillors do approve the incinerator - heat from which would be used to generate electricity - it will start operating in about four years' time.

Supporters of the plant said it would enable the amount of waste going into landfill sites to be reduced and the potential health risk was minimal.

Mr Stuart said: "Residents in and around Salt End already have the stench from the nearby treatment plant to contend with.