Early Day Motion 383 of the 2012-13 session on Zero Waste Strategies, Recycling and Incineration has so far been signed by sixteen twenty eight MPs across five political parties. The Motion highlights the issue of incineration overcapacity and how this could hamper recycling efforts. The Motion also notes the recent EU resolution calling for the incineration of recyclable and compostable material to be phased out by the end of the decade.
The Motion was tabled on the 11th of July 2012 by Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood and co-sponsored by Tom Clarke, Stephen Gilbert, Daniel Kawczynski, Caroline Lucas and Graham Stuart.
The Motion reads as follows:
That this House notes the European Parliament’s adoption by a large majority, on 24 May 2012, of a resolution on a Resource Efficient Europe, which commits to working towards a zero waste strategy and the Parliament’s call on the Commission to bring forward legislative proposals, by the end of 2014, to ban both landfill and the incineration of recyclable and compostable waste in Europe, by 2020; further notes growing evidence of incinerator overcapacity in the UK by 2015, which seriously risks harming recycling performance, as has already happened in some European countries; further notes UK figures showing a steady and significant decline in residual waste since the middle of the last decade – even allowing for the economic recession – and rising recycling rates; acknowledges the impact that these developments will have on the economic case for, and environmental sustainability of, mass-burn incinerators in the UK within a decade; and calls on the Secretaries of State for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change, and Communities and Local Government, and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to work together to examine how government policy can positively facilitate the pursuit of zero waste strategies, and to report to Parliament on their findings as a matter of urgency, as many local communities across the country are currently opposing their local waste authorities’ costly, environmentally damaging and unsustainable plans to build mass-burn incineration plants.
The EDM was signed by the following MPs:
| Name | Party | Constituency | Date Signed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horwood, Martin | Liberal Democrats | Cheltenham | 11.07.2012 |
| Lucas, Caroline | Green Party | Brighton Pavilion | 11.07.2012 |
| Clarke, Tom | Labour Party | Coatbridge Chryston and Bellshill | 11.07.2012 |
| Kawczynski, Daniel | Conservative Party | Shrewsbury and Atcham | 11.07.2012 |
| Stuart, Graham | Conservative Party | Beverley and Holderness | 11.07.2012 |
| Gilbert, Stephen | Liberal Democrats | St Austell and Newquay | 11.07.2012 |
| Corbyn, Jeremy | Labour Party | Islington North | 12.07.2012 |
| Caton, Martin | Labour Party | Gower | 13.07.2012 |
| Shannon, Jim | Democratic Unionist Party | Strangford | 16.07.2012 |
| George, Andrew | Liberal Democrats | St Ives | 16.07.2012 |
| Leech, John | Liberal Democrats | Manchester Withington | 16.07.2012 |
| Goldsmith, Zac | Conservative Party | Richmond Park | 16.07.2012 |
| Hughes, Simon | Liberal Democrats | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | 17.07.2012 |
| Clark, Katy | Labour Party | North Ayrshire and Arran | 17.07.2012 |
| Williams, Stephen | Liberal Democrats | Bristol West | 17.07.2012 |
| Crockart, Mike | Liberal Democrats | Edinburgh West | 17.07.2012 |
| Jackson, Glenda | Labour Party | Hampstead and Kilburn | 03.09.2012 |
| Campbell, Menzies | Liberal Democrats | North East Fife | 03.09.2012 |
| Godsiff, Roger | Labour Party | Birmingham Hall Green | 03.09.2012 |
| Watts, Dave | Labour Party | St Helens North | 03.09.2012 |
| Bayley, Hugh | Labour Party | York Central | 04.09.2012 |
| Hemming, John | Liberal Democrats | Birmingham Yardley | 13.09.2012 |
| Love, Andrew | Labour Party | Edmonton | 16.10.2012 |
| Hopkins, Kelvin | Labour Party | Luton North | 17.10.2012 |
| Morden, Jessica | Labour Party | Newport East | 25.10.2012 |
| Bellingham, Henry | Conservative Party | North West Norfolk | 13.12.2012 |
| Teather, Sarah | Liberal Democrats | Brent Central | 07.01.2013 |
| Wright, Simon | Liberal Democrats | Norwich South | 09.01.2013 |
If your MP is one of the signatories then please write to them to thank them for their support. Otherwise, please write to your MP to ask them to join the others and sign Early day Motion 383.