The plant will deal with 400,000 tonnes of waste a year

The Slough Anti-Incinerator Network (Sain) members plan to turn out in force at the next full meeting of local councillors to highlight their anger.

They are fighting plans to build new incinerators in nearby Colnbrook.

Scheme backers Grundon Waste Management maintain health fears surrounding the incinerators are unfounded.

'Disinformation and scaremongering'

They want to develop an "energy from waste" plant which will have a capacity to deal with 400,000 tonnes of domestic refuse every year.

They also intend to upgrade the existing clinical waste incinerator that has been operating there for the past 12 years.

That will continue to deal with radioactive materials used in cancer treatments.

Founding member of Sain Stuart Melvin said the group objected to the plans, which were approved by Slough Borough Council in June 2000, on health and environmental grounds.

He said of the group's campaign: "We have to be confident we can succeed. You can always make some sort of difference."

A spokeswoman, who dismissed the group's actions as "disinformation and scaremongering", told BBC News Online: "The emission from the plant is something like one 1,000th of the background radiation in the atmosphere."