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Incinerators

Volume 482: debated on Tuesday 4 November 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many new waste incinerators have been installed in each of the last 10 years. (231938)

The following table shows the number of waste incinerators which were permitted in the UK in each of the last 10 years by the Environment Agency, or its predecessor Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP). It includes all incineration processes that take waste from off-site sources. It does not include processes that burn their own waste.

Number of incinerators

1998

4

1999

7

2000

4

2001

1

2002

1

2003

0

2004

0

2005

13

2006

0

2007

0