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In future it looks like Gloucestershire's rubbish will be burned rather than buried.

After years of debate about how to dispose of the county's waste, the county council has chosen the final two companies competing to run a new plant which will get rid of the kind of rubbish which can't be recycled.

Both plans involve building an incinerator at Javelin Park in Haresfield, near Junction 12 of the M5.

It's a controversial decision and many local people have campaigned against it.

Stan Waddington, the County Cabinet member for the Environment, told me it was the best option available as its "affordable, proven, clean and safe."

Here are some of your comments from the breakfast show today...

John in Quedgeley says although junction12 improvements are much better adding all that extra traffic through that region, especially at rush hour would be awful.

Ted says he thought he heard Mr Waddington say that by using incineration we would be able to stop using landfill...not so...Gloucestershire's 150,000 tonnes a year into the incinerator will produce 7,000 tonnes of toxic dust to be buried at Wingmoor. These dusts are openly dumped after inadequate treatment and have been proved to blow out of the site onto nearby houses.

Dave in Longlevens says he can understand a touch of nimby coming from those directly affected by this...but I'm not aware of any significant housing conurbations in the immediate vicinity of the proposed site. In north London the Edmonton incinerator has been there for 50 years and still operating today as is an incinerator in Stoke on Trent.

Fred in Cheltenham says Sweden have made a success of this. We need to learn from them as we can't keep putting all this rubbish into the ground.

Steve in Abbeydale got in touch to say 4 years ago he contacted this programme to say it was a 'done deal' and it seems I was right. The decision makers live no where near the site and so wont have to smell the ash.

Andy in Harwick emails...I can say that we are pretty disappointed and feel let down about Stan Waddington's decision in Hardwicke.
In my personal opinion this will be rejected by the Parish Councils, Stroud District Council and then approved by the Planning Inspectorate on appeal based purely on a legal position. We will take this all the way to Eric Pickles and just hope that the new Localism Bill "putting power back into the hands of the local community" will be worth the paper it's written on!!

Stan - You have a fight on your hands mate!