Complaint and criticism of proposals and applications for clinical waste plant often reveal deeply rooted opposition that demonstrate, inevitably, serious errors in logic.

This TV film report of such a meeting in Payne City, Georgia, is no different though tempers are a litle more constrained that at some meetings I have had to face here in the UK!

Though concerns about traffic nuisance may be legitimate, nobody mentions job creation,. More relevant, when the community is up in arms t is difficult to imagine that not one has kidney failure, is bed-bound and incontinent or has a young baby in nappies, is receiving care in their own home – anything from a minor cut or abrasion managed with a band-aid to something more serious requiring treatment by the community nursing team.

Has nobody ever been to hospital, as a patient or visitor? Did the see those red (yellow/orange) bags and sharps bins? Did they feel unsafe while in proximity to those waste containers? Were staff and patients suffering from infection or other illness due to constant exposure?

As always, a proper and fairly balanced but authoritative representation of these simple facts would counter much of the confusion, disinformation and complaint regarding planning proposals for new clinical waste management facilities. So often, that is so rarely used leading to a persistent struggle between for and against that might be resolved by the formality of the planning authorities but which does nothing for community spirit.