1 Birdcage Walk
London SW1A
UK
The ‘Reduce – Reuse – Recycle’ mantra, so beloved by Government and many ‘environmentalists’, is technically flawed and continues to treat ‘waste’ as a problem, rather than as a resource; as a nation we treat ‘waste’ as a noun, instead of as a verb and seem determined to expend valuable energy resources on ‘down-cycling’ our materials.
The Institution has a long history of promoting Energy from Waste as a sustainable energy option for the future. This lecture traces this support from joint work done with ICE in the mid-2000s through the Institution’s Report: “Energy from Waste: a wasted opportunity” and policy statement: “Waste as a Resource” to a critical analysis of how these concepts fit in with the current interest in the Circular Economy; it then proposes a sustainable strategy for the future