Protesters say there are safer and cleaner alternatives to incinerators

Hundreds of people attended the march "for fresh air" through Newhaven in protest at plans to burn rubbish from across the county in their market town.

Concerns varied from the amount of waste that would be burnt every day to more improvements needed for recycling.

A planning application for the plant is due to be decided on later this year.

The campaign group Dove maintains that incineration does not solve the waste problem nor make the waste disappear.

Hundreds of people attended the march through Newhaven

It says incinerators merely release dangerous toxins into the atmosphere and concentrates all the remaining hazardous materials into toxic ash which has to be disposed of.

Sian Bishop, who attended Saturday's march, said: "The EU directives keep on tightening emissions from incinerators... because they are toxic and they know they have to tighten the emissions for public health."

Dove claims there are proven safer and ultimately cheaper alternatives to waste management that have been implemented successfully elsewhere.