| Title | On a voyage of recovery: a review of the UK's resource recovery from waste infrastructure |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 24942 |
| Authors | Purnell, P |
| Title | On a voyage of recovery: a review of the UK's resource recovery from waste infrastructure |
| Year | 2019 |
| Published | Sustainable And Resilient Infrastructure, 4, 1 |
| Abstract | This paper presents an overview of the U.K.'s Resource Recovery from Waste (RRfW) infrastructure. It introduces the waste management sector and its evolution into a resource recovery industry supporting a circular economy, and analyses key public-domain sources to review existing and planned infrastructure investment, regulation, capacity and new technologies. Most commentators predict a gap between capacity and demand, partly because planned developments are heavily focused on energy recovery; this moves focus away from activities higher up the waste hierarchy. Chronic, pervasive data deficiencies, political uncertainties and fiscal issues are major barriers to the sustainable development of a sector with real potential to provide modern jobs and services at home and for export. Regulation of the sector via environmental agencies, rather than a dedicated regulator for resource conservation, reinforces a cultural focus on waste treatment rather than resource recovery. All these factors impede progress towards the professed goal of achieving a circular economy. |
| https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23789689.2017.1405654?needAccess=true |
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