A review of the performance of municipal waste incinerators within the UK
Publication date: May 2001
Summary
This report examines the performance of all the municipal waste incinerators currently operating in England. The information is taken directly from the public registers for IPC (Integrated Pollution Control) held at Environment Agency offices and the relevant local authority. Although this information is available to the public, it is dispersed across the country (and involves large amounts of paper which need reading, copying and interpreting, all of which is cumbersome and time-consuming) so it has, until now, been very difficult to compare the performance of incinerators against each other. The data in this report particularly focuses on breaches of legal limits on aerial pollution and total discharges of pollution per year. The report summarises this data and presents it in a form in which comparisons can be made.
