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incinerator Incineration is a list of solid waste treatment technologies, waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials. Industrial plants for waste incineration are commonly referred to as waste-to-ene ...

s in the UK that treat

municipal waste Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public. "Garbage" can also refer specifically to food waste, a ...

Operating

NESS Energy Project The NESS Energy Project is an incinerator currently in full operation in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is situated in East Tullos Industrial Estate on a site formerly used for gas storage. History In February 2022, construction workers staged a walko ...

, Aberdeen * Allerton waste recovery park, North Yorkshire *

Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility The Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility is an integrated waste management centre in Allington, Kent. It is the site of the Allington Energy from Waste (EfW) Incinerator. The incinerator is owned by FCC Environment as Kent Enviropower. T ...

* Ardley ERF * Baldovie WtE (Dundee)
Beddington Energy Recovery Facility
(Sutton, London) *

Bolton WtE The Bolton WtE is a waste power station constructed in 1971 in Bolton, and is a major landmark of its skyline. The incinerator burns up to of household waste per hour or per year, and can generate up to 11 MW of electricity. The plant is o ...

* Chineham EfW * Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre * Crossness STW Sludge Powered Generator (Belvedere, London) * CSWDC (Coventry) * Devonport Dockyard Incinerator *

Dudley EfW Dudley ( , ) is a market town in the West Midlands, England, southeast of Wolverhampton and northwest of Birmingham. Historically part of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. In the 20 ...

* Eastcroft EfW (Nottingham) * Exeter ERF *

Fawley Incinerator Fawley may refer to: Places in the United Kingdom * Fawley, Berkshire, a village and civil parish in West Berkshire * South Fawley (or ''Little Fawley''), a village in Berkshire * Fawley, Buckinghamshire, a village in Buckinghamshire * Fawley B ...

Ferrybridge Multifuel 1 Ferrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Ferrybridge lies at a historically important crossing of the River Aire which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton. It is linked to other communities by the A1, which follows t ...

(West Yorkshire) *

Ferrybridge Multifuel 2 Ferrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Ferrybridge lies at a historically important crossing of the River Aire which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton. It is linked to other communities by the A1, which follows t ...

, (West Yorkshire) *

Glanford Power Station Glanford Power Station is an electricity generating plant located on the Flixborough industrial estate near Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. It generates around 13.5 megawatts (MW) of electricity, which is enough to provide power to about 32 ...

* Gloucestershire EfW * Great Blakenham * Greatmoor EfW (Buckinghamshire) *

Hartlebury EfW Hartlebury is a village and civil parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England. It is south of Kidderminster. The village had a population of 2,549 in the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 Census. The village is buffer zone, green ...

Isle of Man Incinerator The Isle of Man Incinerator was designed by Savage & Chadwick Architects and has an unusual shape and design, the stack of which is designed to represent a Viking sail. SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK was awarded the contract to design, build and ...

* Isle of Wight gasification facility * Kirklees EfW * La Collette WtE (Jersey) *

Lakeside EfW The Lakeside EfW is located in Colnbrook, Slough. It incinerates residual waste, and since 2010 it has also been authorised to incinerate low-level radioactive waste. Ownership The Lakeside EfW is run by Lakeside Energy from Waste Ltd, which i ...

(Colnbrook) * Leeds RERF * Lerwick Incinerator * Lincoln ERF (Lincolnshire) * London EcoPark (Edmonton, London) * Marchwood ERF * Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre * Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park * Newhaven ERF * Newlincs EfW facility * North Hykeham Incinerator * Peterborough ERF * Portsmouth ERF * Red Moss Landfill * Riverside Resource Recovery ERF (Belvedere, London) * Runcorn EfW * SELCHP (South Bermondsey, London) * Sheffield ERF *

Shrewsbury Incinerator Shrewsbury ( , ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is sited on the River Severn, northwest of Wolverhampton, west of Telford, southeast of Wrexham and north of Hereford. At the 2021 United ...

* Staffordshire ERF (Four Ashes) * Stoke EfW *

Teesside EfW Teesside Energy from Waste plant (also known as Teesside WTE power station or Haverton Hill incinerator) is a municipal waste incinerator and waste-to-energy power station, which provides 29.2 megawatts (MW) of electricity for the National Gr ...

* Thetford Incinerator (Biomass) * Tyseley Energy from Waste Plant * Westfield Incinerator (Poultry litter) *

Wolverhampton EfW Wolverhampton ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles (20 km) north of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of Walsall to the east an ...

Under construction

* Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre, Bristol *

Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility A rookery is a colony of breeding rooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally gregarious birds. Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used for corvids and the breeding grounds of colony-for ...

, Bedfordshire Portland Port, Dorset

Decommissioned

* Bellozanne Incinerator *

Byker Incinerator Byker is a district in the east of the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Home to the Byker Wall estate, made famous by TV series ''Byker Grove'', Byker's population was recorded at 12 ...

Gateshead Incinerator Gateshead () is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, ...

* Polmadie Incinerator * Portrack Incinerator * South Shields Incinerator *

Sunderland Incinerator Sunderland () is a port city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most populous settlement in the Wearside ...

Tynemouth Incinerator Tynemouth () is a coastal town in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the north side of the mouth of the River Tyne, hence its name. It is east-northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne. The medieval ...

References

External lists

UKWIN list of around 23 existing and 80 potential facilitiesChannel 4 News list of 30 incinerators being "seriously considered or planned by councils"Environment Agency's Waste Incineration Spreadsheet (2006)Tradebe Fawley
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Incinerators Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of substances contained in waste materials. Industrial plants for waste incineration are commonly referred to as waste-to-energy facilities. Incineration and other high ...