Incineration harms recycling, worsens climate change, and other reasons to oppose it
Much of what is incinerated could have been recycled; incineration releases tonnes of CO2 in exchange for very little energy; and other good reasons to oppose incineration.
Support for your local anti‑incineration campaign
Useful advice and guidance to help you with your local efforts to oppose incineration, including how to set up a local campaign group, how to object to a planning application, how to promote alternatives, and much more.
The UK's national campaign against waste incineration
Read more about the work that UKWIN is doing to oppose incineration nationally - including our call for an incineration tax and a moratorium on new capacity - and how you can support these efforts.
Map/table of UK incinerators
UKWIN has collated loads of useful information about existing, potential, and prevented incinerators across the UK - including contact details for local groups, copies of permits, annual reports, etc.
Quick facts and figures
Useful, fully sourced, factual information for journalists and others who want a quick overview of waste incineration in bite-sized chunks that can be cited and repeated.
Social media
See UKWIN's latest Facebook posts and Tweets, and help us get the word out to others who may be interested.
Publications of interest:
- Stories of Movement Building: The United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) (Video produced by Zero Waste Europe)
- A Planetary Prescription (The Institution of Environmental Sciences, December 2024) – feature article by Josh and Shlomo Dowen of UKWIN
- Considerations for potential investors in UK EfW projects (Only Solutions LLP, December 2024) – See also: Summary report
- Burning rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power (BBC, October 2024)
UKWIN pages of interest:
- Incineration Overcapacity
- Climate Change Reports
- Incinerators & Health: Fact or Fiction?
- Donate to UKWIN
Circular Economy / Alternatives to incineration
- Circular Economy Concepts (Circularity Foundation)
- Circular citizenship in Wales (Circularity Foundation PDF)
- Promoting alternatives to incineration (UKWIN guide)