Chinese lantern starts massive fire
Moment Chinese lantern drifts towards plastics factory minutes before it sparked a huge blaze at recycling plant CCTV shows object, believed to be a paper lantern, floating into plant.
Blaze at Jayplas recycling facility caused £6million worth of damage.
Fire ripped through 100,000 plastic bales which were awaiting recycling, sending a column of smoke 6,000ft into the sky.
Blaze has sparked calls for Chinese lanterns to be banned.
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