{"id":1663,"date":"2022-05-19T13:11:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T13:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2022-09-11T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:31:41","slug":"english-waste-incineration-overcapacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/2022\/05\/19\/english-waste-incineration-overcapacity\/","title":{"rendered":"England &#8211; Waste Incineration Overcapacity!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The UK Government has announced a proposed target to halve the amount of waste going to incineration and landfill. <\/strong> <br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is achieved, there simply won&#8217;t be enough waste to burn so we need to be thinking about an incineration exit strategy, not allowing yet more incinerators! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"438\" src=\"http:\/\/ni4h.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Waste-1024x438.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Waste-1024x438.png 1024w, https:\/\/ni4h.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Waste-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/ni4h.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Waste-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/ni4h.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Waste.png 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why Oppose Incineration<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/oppose-incineration\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/oppose-incineration\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There are many reasons why people oppose incineration, including because:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/oppose-incineration\/#recycling\" target=\"_blank\">Incineration harms recycling<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/oppose-incineration\/#climatechange\" target=\"_blank\">Incineration exacerbates climate change<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/oppose-incineration\/#circulareconomy\" target=\"_blank\">Incineration is a barrier to the circular economy<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/oppose-incineration\/#overcapacity\" target=\"_blank\">The UK already faces incineration overcapacity<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/oppose-incineration\/#airquality\" target=\"_blank\">Incinerators harms air quality<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/oppose-incineration\/#badneighbours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Incinerators are bad neighbours<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong> Alternatives to Incineration<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternatives to incineration are less costly, more flexible, quicker to implement and better for the environment. Rather than incinerating waste, local authorities should focus on maximising re-use and recycling alongside providing a weekly separate food waste collection for treatment by composting or anaerobic digestion (AD).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/act-locally\/#alternatives\" target=\"_blank\">See the \u2018promoting alternatives\u2019 section of UKWIN\u2019s \u2018Act Locally\u2019 page for advice on how councils can avoid relying on incineration<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Government has announced a proposed target to halve the amount of waste going to incineration and landfill. If this is achieved, there simply won&#8217;t be enough waste to burn so we need to be thinking about an incineration exit strategy, not allowing yet more incinerators! Why Oppose Incineration https:\/\/ukwin.org.uk\/oppose-incineration\/ There are many reasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ni4h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}