Genuine steps must be taken to minimise local pollution and health risks from waste incinerators. Much more could be done including better technology, higher stacks, greater controls over feedstocks, and more rigorous monitoring and enforcement. Incinerators & Health: Fact...
The waste industry has had a change of heart and now welcomes paying for the carbon emissions of incineration but are its fears over landfill leakage well-founded? Plans for the inclusion of all waste incineration and energy-from-waste (EfW) facilities...
Open Protest Network has produced a great video promoting the new report by UK Without Incineration Network on the UK’s incineration overcapacity, which will hurt efforts to increase recycling. The new UKWIN report shows significant incineration overcapacity across England once...
A new report published on 26th September 2023, by the UK Without Incineration Network (UKWIN), shows that if waste reduction targets are met English incineration capacity would exceed available feedstock by 2.6 million tonnes in 2027, with this overcapacity...
UKWIN and other health and environmental NGOs sent a letter to the UK Government slamming their inadequate response to our 10 point plan to phase out waste incineration and transition to zero waste. In a forceful response to the...
GREENWASH: Waste companies and many councils claim that incineration is better than landfill, but Climate Scientist, Piers Forster, of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), has described this as “increasingly bogus”. Much of what is incinerated could and should...
Sustainable air fuel plant looks for long-term residual waste contracts Saudi Arabian engineering construction company Alfanar is to develop a £1.5bn waste-to-sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility at Teesside, in what it said would be the world’s largest such plant....
10-point action plan to phase out waste incineration and accelerate the transition to zero waste. To support the move away from incineration and towards a low-carbon circular economy, Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, Plastics Rebellion, the UK Without Incineration Network and...
Many thanks to our MP, Jeremy Quin, for his ongoing support for the Community Group’s campaign. Jeremy Quin News Monday, 24 April, 2023 The Open Day for residents at Tanbridge on the proposed Incinerator north of the town was...
Community Questions Compiled from the many questions received from around the local community, representing genuine concerns from local people, Community Questions were sent by local resident members of the Community Liaison Group (CLG) to Qair on 21 February 2023. Response...
