Energy: Waste
(asked on 13th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many waste to energy plants were operating in (a) the UK and (b) the North East in each of the last five years.
Answered by
Rebecca Pow
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 26th February 2020
Waste is a devolved matter. The Environment Agency only holds data for England. The number of waste to energy plants processing municipal waste operating in England and in the North East in the last five years is shown in the table below.
Location | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
England | 36 | 39 | 39 | 41 | 45 |
North East | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 |