Factsheet: Waste act

Waste act

Key Information

Country/Region:

European Union›UNITED KINGDOM

Description:

Energy recovery from waste: The UK is obliged under the revised EU Waste Framework Directive to apply the waste hierarchy. This ranks waste management options in order of environmental preference and the first priority is waste reduction. Recovering energy from waste is only appropriate for waste that cannot be prevented, reused or recycled with less greenhouse gas emitted. Energy recovery can be a sustainable option for waste that would otherwise go to landfill and create landfill methane emissions.

Goal/Aim:

regulate waste management

Impact on regional bioeconomy objectives

Fostering effective governance and involvement of the society:

Not Relevant

Building a strong research, development and innovation base:

Not Relevant

Enhancing the creation of jobs and ensuring availability of required skills:

Not Relevant

Building competitive biobased industries:

Not Relevant

Creating a reliable and enabling policy setting:

Not Relevant

Address the (multilevel) cooperations needed to start biobased businesses:

Not Relevant

Creating an attractive environment including infrastructure:

Not Relevant

Availability of financial resources:

Not Relevant

Learning from the strategies/actions of other regions, clusters,...:

Not Relevant

Fostering the development of strong biobased markets:

Not Relevant

Contact References

Full name of Instrument & Measure (English):

Waste Act

Links:

https://www.gov.uk/generating-energy-from-waste-including-anaerobic-digestion

Responsible Authority:

Environment Agency

Contact of Responsible Authority:

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/

Completed by:

Imperial College London

Completed on:

March, 2014

Advanced Information

Feedstock type targeted:

Product type targeted:

Value Chain:

Comments

Environmental Sustainability Requirements:

sustainable waste management

Material Hierarchy:

waste hierarchy

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