UK Without Incineration Network

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SNP under fire for 'costly wasted opportunity' to cut waste and boost recycling Campaigners have hit out at the Scottish Government’s blueprint to cut waste.

Together with 29 other charities, community groups and campaigners, we have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy warning of grave missed opportunities in the Scottish Government's draft Circular Economy Strategy ✉️

www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

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25 years of community, movement-building & power.
▶️Our new video celebrates our collective achievements at GAIA, from our earliest days to a global network of 1,000+ organizations. Thank you for helping build a world that refuses to burn &chooses #zerowaste instead.
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🔴 BREAKING: Analysis from @oilchange.bsky.social and @corporateeurope.org reveals €17+ billion of public funds poured into #CCS in Europe since 2001.

After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum.

Read more 👇
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Thanks again @vikkislademp.bsky.social - we've tweaked the template email message to reflect that fact that, as you rightly explained, there will be no vote if the motion is unopposed.

For the Canford appeal, it could make all the difference if Government updated waste planning policy to reflect the tighter policies announced last December but not yet enshrined in waste planning policy!

Hopefully the motion will go ahead unopposed, but just in case we would want MPs to be aware that they can vote to support the motion if needs be

Please ask your MP to vote against incineration on Tues 25 November as per page 25
commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/991...
Dr Andrew Murrison MP secured a 10-minute rule motion on waste incineration. Contact your MP ask them to vote to support this bill:
ukwin.eaction.org.uk/NoMoreIncine...

Say NO to Drax's AI Data Centre Stop Burning Trees just handed in a petition to David Skaith, Charlie Jeffery and Liz Kendall MP calling on them to reject and cut ties with the proposed Drax-powered AI Data Centre. Both the North Yo...

I just wrote a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social letter to Drax's partners and the DSIT calling on them to reject and cut ties with Drax's AI Data Centre. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/say-...

Redcar & Cleveland requires overcapacity analysis before agreeing £2.1bn incinerator contract Council passes motion also requiring carbon liability guarantees before committing to 40-year contract for residual treatment

resource.co/article/redc...

Better than burning - Why we need to stop waste incineration Everyday Plastic joins 155 groups for Europe’s Day of Action Against Incineration, calling for a ban on new plants and real waste solutions.

"If we want a fairer, circular future, we must stop building more incinerators and instead invest in solutions that cut plastic production, reduce waste, and scale up reuse and recycling."

Check out the Everyday Plastic blogpost at: www.everydayplastic.org/blog/2025/9/... #betterthanburning

Care about ♻recycling♻, 🌎the environment🌎, ☁air quality☁?

Write to your English MP calling on them to press the UK Government to better regulate waste incineration and prioritise recycling because we can do #BetterThanBurning!

ukwin.eaction.org.uk/NoMoreIncine...

Whittlesey residents call for stronger oversight of Saxon Pit and Wisbech Incinerator - News for Peterborough and Cambridgeshire A residents’ group in Whittlesey is urging regulators to strengthen oversight of local waste operations, warning that public confidence has eroded and long-term health and environmental risks remain u...

www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/whittle...

🚨 Harmful chemicals from waste incineration found in French schools 🚨

Waste incineration is neither safe nor sustainable, putting human health & the environment at risk. These findings are yet more evidence of that.

It’s time to make waste incineration a thing of the past.

Report: zurl.co/iLYBa

@ollyglover.bsky.social Thanks for taking up the issue of incineration being a barrier to the circular economy with Defra Olly!

Make your voice count on incineration policy

🏭🔥♻🖉 Call on your MP to press Government to update waste planning policies, strengthen incineration industry regulation, and begin work on new measures to halve residual waste. ukwin.eaction.org.uk/NoMoreIncine...

Plastics: from pollution to solution Plastic pollution is out of control and environmental groups have been pushing to secure a global agreement to tackle it. Fossil fuel lobbyists again blocked a full treaty that would cut plastic prod...

We need to cut plastics production but fossil fuel lobbyists are blocking this.

The fight goes on.

Camilla Berens from Greenwich & Lewisham Greenpeace reports

www.salamandernews.org/25-08-plasti...

Our discarded plastic is burnt at SELCHP incinerator, Deptford - what's coming out of the flue? The facility has been burning household waste since 1993, and much of that waste is plastics. But concerns about the chemicals in plastics, and the dangers of air pollution, have grown. Wales offers...

Our plastic waste is burnt here in New Cross.

Ever worried about what might be coming from the flue?

www.salamandernews.org/25-08-discar...

There would be no ZWE without Joan Marc Simon—that's a fact 💯

When he founded ZWE in 2010, he knew something needed fixing: our broken system churning out mountains of waste.

15 years later, JM's mission is as clear as ever: developing economic incentives.

Learn more: zurl.co/10YEB #MeetTheTeam

Is burning waste the answer to the UK’s energy needs? The government is planning on building a new generation of incinerators to generate electricity - including one on England’s renowned Jurassic coast.

Sensemaker podcast by @theobserveruk.bsky.social has spoken to campaigners against the Jurassic Coast incinerator proposed for Portland. It was recorded before the good news about leave to appeal the planning legal challenge was granted. observer.co.uk/listen/today...

The folly of long-term incinerator contracts In Grangetown, where healthy life expectancy is 51.5, a 30-year waste deal risks locking in pollution and blocking progress. Will Teesside councils act?

The folly of long-term incinerator contracts northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

MPs told Parliament about incineration: Baggy Shanker, Catherine Atkinson, Ben Obese-Jecty, Lee Barron, Samantha Niblett, Lincoln Jopp, Julie Minns, Jeremy Corbyn, Lloyd Hatton, Steve Barclay, Josh Fenton-Glynn, Euan Stainbank, Luke Taylor, and Robbie Moore. See www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

Parliamentlive.tv Westminster Hall

Is your MP speaking at tomorrow's Parliamentary debate on waste incinerators to be held tomorrow (3rd April) from 1:30pm? Watch it live online at: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

🚨 Europe’s incinerators are poisoning communities and getting away with it.

Our new biomonitoring reports found:

🥚 Record-breaking dioxins in backyard eggs (Spain)
🏫 Toxic chemicals in schoolyards (France)
🧪 PFAS pollution on par with chemical plants (Netherlands)

📎 Reports below 👇

Thank you @vikkislademp.bsky.social You are of course also a councillor on BCP Council so it would be great if you could use your voice + influence to #StopCanfordIncinerator

ukwin.eaction.org.uk/NoMoreIncine...

3rd April: MPs debate waste incineration for first time this Parliament. Ask your MP to urgent the Government to protect recycling, air quality, and waste reduction by doing more to prevent waste incineration projects which have yet to be built from going ahead.

Read the opinion piece 'Waste Incineration: How necessary is it?' by UKWIN's Coordinators in the Institute of Environmental Science's magazine. Other articles also cover relevant topics like: incineration, air quality, health and environmental justice. www.the-ies.org/resources/pl...

Petition: Ban new waste incinerators and revoke permits where building has not begun Introduce a moratorium on new waste incinerators like in Scotland and Wales, and ban new permits and require existing permits to be revoked where substantial construction has not begun.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... Can we get to 3,000 signatures before the start of the weekend?

♻️🔥 Dozens of MPs have already been contacted—now it’s your turn! England’s incineration capacity is set to surge by 27%, threatening recycling and the circular economy. Tell your MP to call on the Government to act now! ✉️ #NoMoreIncinerators #CircularEconomy ukwin.eaction.org.uk/NoMoreIncine...

🚨 82 civil society organisations have signed the Beyond Bioenergy statement. ​

Current EU #bioenergy policies are harming our climate, nature and food security. This must change.​