Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Environment Agency

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: NN16 8XF, Fernbrook Bio Limited: environmental permit issued - EPR/EP3894SC/V010
Document: Variation notice: Fernbrook Bio Limited (PDF)

Found: R3: Recycling/reclamation of organic substances which are not used as solvents From receipt of

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Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Environment Agency

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: Review of emerging techniques for hydrogen production from electrolysis of water
Document: Review of emerging techniques for hydrogen production from electrolysis of water (PDF)

Found: auto-thermal reactor (ATR) or partial oxidation (POX) • industrial: for example steel, glass, pulp and paper

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Written Question

Methane: Pollution Control

Thursday 28th March 2024

Asked by: Matt Hancock (Independent - West Suffolk)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department (a) is taking and (b) plans to take to help reduce methane emissions from (a) anthropogenic sources, (b) landfills and (c) fossil fuel production.

Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

In the UK, overall greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector have decreased by 74% since 1990. This is mostly due to the implementation of methane recovery systems at UK landfill sites, increasing landfill methane capture rates, and reductions in the amount of biodegradable waste disposed of at landfill sites. In 2022, the waste sector accounted for 4.6% of total UK territorial greenhouse gas emissions, with landfill methane emissions responsible for 80% of the sector’s emissions.

We are committed to tackling these remaining emissions and are exploring options for the near elimination of municipal biodegradable waste being sent to landfill in England from 2028, in line with the commitment in the Net Zero Strategy. Under the Government’s Simpler Recycling reforms, set out within new s45 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (as amended by the Environment Act 2021), all households, businesses and relevant non-domestic premises will be required to arrange for the collection of food waste for recycling or composting. Recycling via anaerobic digestion will produce biogas and significant carbon savings over sending food waste to landfill. To explore further measures to achieve our commitment we issued a call for evidence on 26 May 2023 to support detailed policy development. A summary of responses to this call for evidence and further information will be published in due course.

We are undertaking research to quantify site-specific methane emissions from landfill and update our understanding of residual (non-recyclable) waste composition. Both of these projects will support efforts to further reduce methane emissions from landfill sites and report our emissions in line with UNFCCC guidelines.

Defra considers that Methane Suppressing Feed Products (MSFPs) are an essential tool to decarbonise the agriculture sector. In England, our objective is to establish a mature market for these products, encourage uptake and mandate the use of MSFPs in appropriate cattle systems as soon as feasibly possible and no later than 2030. We are committed to working with farmers and industry to achieve this goal, and in early March convened the inaugural meeting of a Ministerial-led industry taskforce on MSFPs.

The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (EPR) provide wide-ranging powers to control emissions to air, water and land from regulated installations through permits. Methane is a pollutant under the EPR and, where relevant, industrial installations must comply with EPR permit conditions to control and monitor methane.

In the 2020 Energy White Paper, the Government committed to the World Bank’s ‘Zero Routine Flaring by 2030’ initiative which aims to eliminate routine flaring from oil production globally.

Through the North Sea Transition Deal and the industry’s subsequent Methane Action Plan, UK industry has committed further to accelerate compliance with the World Bank's initiative where possible, set a 50% methane reduction target by 2030 (against a 2018 baseline) and have adopted the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative’s methane intensity target of 0.2% by 2025.

Emissions associated with methane venting and flaring are accounted for in our binding domestic carbon budgets.

The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) already expects methane emissions to be as low as possible, and for all new developments to be developed on the basis of zero routine flaring and venting, (and to be either electrified or electrification-ready).

All platforms are expected to have zero routine flaring and venting from or before 2030.

The consenting process for flaring and venting is administered by the NSTA, which is working with industry to keep non-routine flaring and venting to a minimum.

The NSTA recently consulted on its draft OGA Plan, which included a section on flaring and venting. It is due to publish its response and the final OGA plan soon.

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Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 27 2024

Source Page: Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: international climate finance and gender security
Document: Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme: international climate finance and gender security. Integrating gender in the design of scaled-up or new British High Commission Tanzania programmes, March 2024 (PDF)

Found: - the health risks of waste picking and manual recycling.

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Select Committee

South Oxfordshire District Council, University of South Wales, The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology, Environmental Services Association, and WRAP

Oral Evidence Mar. 27 2024

Inquiry: Methane
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment and Climate Change Committee

Found: Paper and card are also significant sources.

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Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner

Mar. 26 2024

Source Page: OISC annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023
Document: OISC annual report and accounts: 2022 to 2023 (PDF)

Found: PO Box 567 Dartford KENT DA1 9XW United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-5286-4779-3 E03099411 03/24 Printed on paper

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