Incinerators: Regulation

(asked on 2nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether it is his policy for the UK to maintain regulatory alignment with European Union Directive 2010/75/EU Art 3.40 in respect of the definition of (a) pyrolysis and (b) gasification as forms of incineration.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 8th February 2022

Defra has no plans at this time to amend the existing regulatory framework governing incineration. However, Defra continuously considers how waste can be managed in the most sustainable way, including through new and emerging technologies currently classified as energy recovery.

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