Extract from committee stage (Lords) (day 5) of the Environment Bill - July 5
Tuesday, 6 July 2021 07:50
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con):...I may have one point of
disagreement with the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott. She and I both
have family living in Denmark, I understand, and I have been
immensely taken by the contribution that the Danes, other
Scandinavians and Austria and Germany have made to enhancing energy
from waste I prefer to call it energy from waste ; I know others
call it incineration. I had beer poured over me once in my surgery
when I was a Member of the other place; since...Request free trial
(Con):...I may have one point of disagreement with the noble
Baroness, Lady Boycott. She and I both have family living in
Denmark, I understand, and I have been immensely taken by the
contribution that the Danes, other Scandinavians and Austria and
Germany have made to enhancing energy from waste I prefer to call it
energy from waste ; I know others call
it incineration. I had beer poured over me once in my surgery when
I was a Member of the other place; since then, I have called it
energy from waste . This is the
ultimate circular economy, because you are taking potential food
waste and putting it into the system—the residual; I accept the
hierarchy, and it should be the absolute minimum. The community
benefits because it would go, ideally, into the local grid. There
is a now a big incinerator in what was my original constituency,
the Vale of York. The gripe I have with it is that it goes into the
National Grid, whereas, as north Yorkshire is very cold, it should
go into the local grid...
(CB):...I was interested in what the noble Baroness, Lady
McIntosh, said, and I agree with her that energy from waste is a very good
way to describe it. I know that Ludlow at one point ran its school
bus on the food waste which people put in buckets at the ends of
their drives. It was very effective because people got involved,
and it helped them to understand that there is proper energy, life
and all sorts of good stuff in food. As she said, I indeed have
lots of relatives in Denmark who are unbelievably good about it,
and also do bottle deposit schemes...
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