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Free allowances could blunt EU carbon price for most incinerators (opens the original)
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Policy briefing models effective carbon costs for three plant types, finding district-heating free allowances keep the price below the threshold at which sorting residual waste becomes commercially rational. Most of Europe’s waste-to-energy incinerators could face a carbon cost too low to shift investment towards recycling and sorting under the European Commission’s proposal to include the sector in the EU emissions trading system from 2031, according to analysis published by Zero Waste Europe (
Zero Waste Scotland to be merged into single national environment body (opens the original)
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Scotland's circular economy delivery body to be folded into a single environment agency alongside SEPA and NatureScot, with no timetable and functions still to be decided. Zero Waste Scotland will be merged with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and NatureScot into a single national environment body, First Minister John Swinney told Holyrood today (1 September), with Scottish Forestry potentially to also be included. Setting out the Programme for Government 2026 to 2031, Swinney describ
Government postpones inclusion of waste incineration in UK ETS (opens the original)
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Postponement is the second major waste policy deferral in weeks, following the three-year delay to mandatory flexible plastics collections confirmed in July. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has confirmed that the expansion of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme to waste incineration will no longer take place in 2028 as originally planned. No new date has been set for full inclusion, which the UK ETS Authority first announced in July 2023. Environmental campaigners condemned the decis
Flexible Plastic Fund calls for transition plan after Defra delay (opens the original)
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Industry-backed fund warns three-year delay risks destroying investor confidence and urges government to publish a phased delivery roadmap with clear milestones. The Flexible Plastic Fund (FPF) has called on the government to publish a phased transition plan for flexible plastic collections, warning that Defra's decision to defer the mandatory kerbside deadline from March 2027 to 1 April 2030 risks deterring investment in domestic recycling capacity. The fund, which ran the UK's largest househol
Mary Creagh departs Defra leaving circular economy brief vacant (opens the original)
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Departure ends a two-year tenure overseeing waste and circular economy policy, with the Circular Economy Growth Plan still unpublished and its future uncertain under new Defra leadership. Mary Creagh has announced her departure from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ending a two-year tenure as the UK’s first Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature and leaving the circular economy and waste brief without a named minister. “Very sorry to be leaving government, but t
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