Incinerator companies avoided £500m of pollution charges for burning plastic last year because of a “loophole” in government policy.
Despite burning millions of tonnes of plastic rubbish, the operators of incinerators – including waste giants Viridor, Veolia and Suez – were not required to buy pollution permits under the Emissions Trading Scheme.
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) today called on the government to end this exemption and impose a moratorium on granting planning permission for new incinerators.
