Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 61156

Pollution Control

Tabled: 19 June 2025

Answered: 7 July 2025

Question

Steve Barclay

Conservative — North East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency is taking steps to (a) control and (b) report on the potential risk of toxic contamination from the use of (i) recycled Energy Recovery Facilities incine

Answer

Mary Creagh

As was the case when he was Secretary of State for Defra, the ash residue from energy recovery facilities is normally processed into incinerator The bottom ash aggregate (IBAA). IBAA can only be used under the terms of a regulatory position statement (RPS...

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