Waste to Energy
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16 July 2014
GIB forecasts a gap of up to 7.7 million tonnes between the amount of waste produced post-recycling and the infrastructure available to process it – an investment opportunity of c. £5 billion to 2020. This energy recovery infrastructure could generate enough renewable electricity to power one million homes.
Chris Holmes
Managing Director, Waste and Bioenergy, UK Green Investment Bank
As highlighted in the report, the UK produced 85 million tonnes of waste in 2012, of which almost 21 million tonnes were sent to landfill. Using non-recyclable waste as a fuel to generate energy rather than sending it to landfill can deliver both much needed UK energy generation capacity as well as significant environmental benefits over the longer term.
With a 70% drop in waste sent to landfill and a 26% increase in recycling since 2000, the UK is getting better at managing its waste sustainably. But there remains an opportunity for the UK to do more.
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