Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 41670

Incinerators: Carbon Emissions

Tabled: 26 March 2025
Answered: 2 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Vikki Slade

Liberal DemocratMid Dorset and North Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of an increase in waste incinerators on the UK's carbon emission reduction targets.

Answer

Mary Creagh
The Government is committed to transitioning to a circular economy. Defra published the Residual Waste Infrastructure Capacity Note and an accompanying statement on 30 December 2024, which set out that government will only back new Energy from Waste proje...

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