Time for Honesty About Britain's Hazardous Waste Future
Jen Cartmell, Managing Director of waste management specialist CSG, discusses the residual infrastructure needed to manage hazardous materials.
The UK is facing a hazardous waste crisis due to a shortage of capacity for processing hazardous waste, particularly the lack of large-scale hazardous waste to energy facilities.
There are only two high-capacity incinerators in the UK, both of which are fully utilized and do not have energy recovery capabilities.
The country has a shortage of capacity for processing of hazardous waste, highlighted specifically by the absence of any large-scale hazardous waste to energy facility.
Author's summary: UK faces hazardous waste crisis due to lack of infrastructure.