The Council statement, when taken alongside the endorsement by the Committee for Climate Change, represents a significant policy development which we at NREL wholeheartedly support. The Northacre facility and other energy from waste plants are part of the solution.

We all need to do more to reduce single-use plastics, re-use items and recycle as much as we can. After this, diverting this residual waste from landfill and reducing waste exports to Europe to capture the energy locally is an important step in the right direction.