Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 49143

Alternative Fuels: Aviation

Tabled: 29 April 2025
Answered: 8 May 2025

Question

Euan Stainbank

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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Waste Hierachy to place Sustainable Aviation Fuel produced by waste-to-liquid above that produced by energy-from-w

Answer

Mary Creagh
The waste hierarchy sets out a priority order in which waste should be managed (prevention, preparing for reuse, recycling, recovery, disposal). The process of converting waste (both biogenic and fossil fractions) into fuels/energy is a recovery operation...

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