Waste Incinerators - 25th November 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Waste Incinerators.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-11-25/debates/22EAF108-DA7B-4346-9D20-12A0504CE5F3/WasteIncinerators

00:00 Andrew Murrison (Conservative)

Since the landfill tax was introduced in 1996, consecutive Administrations—Labour, coalition and Conservative—have encouraged incineration and discouraged landfill. They have been helped by the burner industry, which has greenwashed its operations as “energy from waste”. The generation of a few tepid calories and a feeble stream of electrons has convinced Whitehall that waste burners are part of a transition to a green future and to net zero. They are not.

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