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This article was originally published on Yale Environment360.
For decades, Europe has poured millions of tons of its trash into incinerators each year, often under the green-sounding label waste to energy. Now, concerns about incineration’s outsized carbon footprint and fears it may undermine recycling are prompting European Union officials to ease their long-standing embrace of a technology that once seemed an appealing way to make waste disappear.
The EU is in the process of cutting off funding for new incinerators, but there’s little sign most existing ones currently consuming 27 percent of the bloc’s municipal waste will close any time soon. And, even without EU financial support, new plants are in the works, many in southern and eastern European countries that historically have incinerated less than long-standing waste-to-energy proponents such as Germany, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian nations. Meanwhile, across the English Channel, post-Brexit Britain is c
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In addition, Mr Vähk warned, the EU’s goal of preventing countries from disposing of less than 10 percent by 2035 would support the call of unsuspecting smokers. “There are a lot of challenges in reducing waste disposal,” he said. This is worrying, “because we don’t want to leave the garbage can to go to hell.”
It all comes as the EU does push Reducing waste, especially plastic, by composting and recycling logs, ordering plastic bottles to contain 30% of recyclable materials by 2030, and banning starting in July once-used items such as cutlery, cups, and perforations. The EU has adopted a new “surrounding economy” fix it whose purpose is to promote the design of good materials so that recycling and recycling is easy.
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