Five international activists spoke of the various hazards of incinerators in their own countries at a public forum attended by 200 residents from Broga, Selangor - the site of the proposed mega-incinerator.

The activists - Junichi Sato and Setsuko Yamamoto (Japan), Pat Costner and Monica Wilson (US) and Von Hernandez (the Philippines) - also informed the local residents of some of the possible alternatives to incinerators.

The public forum held in Kajang o­n Saturday was jointly organised by the Broga/Semenyih No Incinerator pro tem committee and the New Era College's Community Service Student Initiative.

The project, funded through a RM2 billion Japanese soft loan, sparked off a second round of strong protests after it was relocated last November to Broga from the original site in Kampung Bohol, Puchong, where the controversy first arose.