South West MEP Giles Chichester has said waste to energy plants are key components for sustainable energy programmes.
Giles gave the keynote address at the Biannual Congress of the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants held in Antwerp, where he said the development of waste to energy plants needed to be regarded as an important element of national sustainable renewable energy programmes.
He urged central and local government authorities in Britain to recognise that the setting up of waste to energy plants carried little health or pollution risks since the process of combustion is different from incineration and produces negligible emissions.
He called upon UK waste to energy industries to take positive action to address the social, psychological and economic objections of the population to its development, which offered an important source of low cost and low carbon produced electricity for communities.
(Image: Chichester MEP addressing the Biannual Congress of the Confederation of Waste to Energy Plants in Antwerp.)
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