{"id":11601,"date":"2020-11-17T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:20","slug":"increase-in-burning-of-plastic-driving-up-emissions-from-waste-disposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/11\/17\/increase-in-burning-of-plastic-driving-up-emissions-from-waste-disposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in burning of plastic &#8216;driving up emissions from waste disposal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carbon emissions from waste disposal are increasing because of the expansion of energy-from-waste incineration plants, a coalition of campaigners has warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 2030 the government\u2019s push to increase incineration of waste will increase CO<sub>2&nbsp;<\/sub>emissions by 10m tonnes a year, mostly from the burning of plastics, the groups said. They argue that the growth in energy-from-waste incineration means the UK will not be able to meet its commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coalition, which includes Extinction Rebellion\u2019s zero waste group,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/friends-of-the-earth\">Friends of the Earth<\/a>, the UK Without Incineration Network (UKWIN), Greenpeace and the MP John Cruddas, says the expansion of waste incineration is forcing up carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an open letter to the prime minister they are calling for a law requiring the waste sector to decarbonise by 2035, similar to legislation passed in the Scandinavian countries and Finland. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/nov\/16\/increase-in-burning-of-plastic-driving-up-emissions-from-waste-disposal\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon emissions from waste disposal are increasing because of the expansion of energy-from-waste incineration plants, a coalition of campaigners has warned. By 2030 the government\u2019s push to increase incineration of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}