Incinerating waste

Thank you for your continued interest in the incineration review.

As I noted in my previous email dated 17 June, the review commissioned further work to consider the options for decarbonising the residual waste management sector in Scotland, which is expected to complete by the end of this year.

We will be holding further stakeholder engagement sessions for this work. These sessions will set out our key assumptions, evidence gaps and options to explore for decarbonisation. The sessions will be run twice, each following the same agenda, on the following dates: 

• Tuesday, 30^th August, 12:00-13:30
• Wednesday, 31^st August, 18:00 – 19:30

You can register for these events by emailing incineration-review@gov.scot with the event which you would like to attend. Please note that these events will be recorded

The information and views you provided during the Call for Evidence earlier this year will be considered in this work, and you do not need to send these to us again. If further evidence has arisen since the Call for Evidence which you would like us to be aware of, please send it to incineration-review@gov.scot by no later than the 30^th September.

If you have any questions, please email incineration-review@gov.scot.

Kind regards,
Dr Colin Church.

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The Scottish Government has now published its initial response to the Review’s recommendations. You can find this here: Independent review of the role of incineration in the waste hierarchy: Scottish Government response - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

As I noted in my report and during the stakeholder engagement session following its publication, the Review has commissioned further work to consider the options for decarbonising the residual waste management sector in Scotland. This is expected to complete by the end of 2022 or start of 2023.

Evidence submitted by stakeholders to the Call for Evidence regarding decarbonisation will be considered as a part of this work. The Review is currently planning to launch a further round of stakeholder engagement later this summer, in which we will be seeking responses to specific questions and open to any further representations stakeholders wish to make.

We will be in contact with further details regarding this in the coming weeks.

SG response  PDF download

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