Thank you to all 127 Parliamentary candidates who agreed with the need to:
- Stop building new incineration capacity; and
- Minimise waste incineration – by maximising waste reduction, reuse, and recycling
Alliance for Democracy and Freedom
Preston, North West
“We should not be incinerating waste, full stop! It releases toxic and carcinogenic chemicals. Re-using is the best option, i.e. glass milk bottles. Single use plastics should be reserved for essential use. The focus on green house gas and climate change is distracting us from the bigger issue of pollution.”
11/06/2024
Communist Party of Britain
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend, North East
“I agree with the urgent need to reduce both incineration and recycling, and that much can be done to bring this about. But ultimately this is a problem of an economic system which prioritises profit over everything else. Manufacturers should be obliged to cover the costs of recycling, at end-use, the commodities that they produce.”
27/06/2024
Conservative and Unionist Party
South West Wiltshire, South West
“I want a moratorium on all new incinerator construction, including the one planned for Westbury. We should be reducing, reusing and recycling waste, not consigning it to the great landfill in the sky.”
04/06/2024
North West Norfolk, East of England
“I opposed the proposed new Wisbech incinerator in Parliament and welcome the Conservative Party manifesto commitment to prevent new waste incinerators being built, including those with recent permit approvals, such as Wisbech. We have enough capacity already and don’t need more given our legally binding recycling targets.”
02/07/2024
Wallasey, North West
“If elected, I will vote to prevent new waste incinerators being built, including those with recent permit approvals, revoking those where substantial construction has not taken place. This recognises the impact on local communities and that increased recycling rates will reduce the need for incineration capacity in the longer term.”
01/07/2024
Birkenhead, North West
“Incinerating waste in the UK, or sending it abroad to be incinerated, is not the solution.”
01/07/2024
Green Party
Waveney Valley, East of England
“I have a long history of campaigning against incinerators and for waste reduction and recycling. I actively opposed the one that was planned and successfully defeated in West Norfolk. I am supporting residents who are concerned about the proposed incinerator near Beccles, Suffolk, where the Green-led council has put conditions in place which set a high bar for the incinerator to get an environmental permit to operate (it had been given permission under the previous Conservative administration).”
17/06/2024
Sheffield Heeley, Yorkshire and The Humber
“If elected for the Green Party, I will advocate for a circular economy that reduces the waste of resources. I would seek to introduce a “producer pays” principle to incentivise packaging reduction. Elected Greens would seek to require manufacturers to offer ten-year warranties on white goods, to encourage repair and reuse. We would introduce a comprehensive ‘right to repair’, so manufacturers keep goods operational years after purchase and to eliminate built-in obsolescence.”
19/06/2024
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Bedford, East of England
“I opposed the monstrosity that has been built just south of Bedford, and as a councillor opposed our waste being sent to it. It is not “energy from waste” as they pretend: it is a waste of recyclable and reusable materials.”
25/06/2024
Tewkesbury, South West
“Incineration is not the answer and it is horrifying that new plants are still being built. We need to spend the money on creating recycling plants for difficult materials and encourage less waste. As someone who is zero waste (no landfill / incineration waste for 7 years) I am passionate about this and fully adhere to reduce, reuse, recycle. I don’t expect everyone to be zero waste, but it’s great to be able to show others that it can be done. I fully support the work of UKWIN.”
11/06/2024
Bradford East, Yorkshire and The Humber
“This is long overdue – reduce, recycle, reuse is not rocket science – let’s just get it done.”
28/06/2024
North Cotswolds, South West
“Incineration holds back recycling rates while piling more emissions into the atmosphere – we need a wholly different approach to resource management.”
11/06/2024
Tynemouth, North East
“As a Parliamentary candidate, I am committed to a sustainable future where we prioritise waste reduction, compost, reusability, and recycling. I oppose the construction of new incineration facilities and support policies that minimise the need for waste incineration. Together, we can create a cleaner, greener environment for current and future generations.”
06/06/2024
Forest of Dean, South West
“Incineration is an expensive way to disincentivise recycling. The Committee on Climate Change have advised that no more incinerators should be built. We need to reduce, reuse and recycle.”
11/06/2024
Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven, South East
“We need to stop the expansion of waste incineration – it pollutes the air and exacerbates climate change. We must prioritise repair, re-use, and creating durable products to ensure a sustainable future.”
15/06/2024
Carlisle, North West
“As the Green Party parliamentary candidate I advocate halting the construction of a new incinerator. Instead we must prioritize waste reduction, reuse, and recycling. Building new incinerators locks us into a cycle of waste and pollution, undermining our efforts to transition to a circular economy. By focusing on reducing waste at the source and maximizing recycling and reuse, we can protect our environment, conserve resources, and create sustainable, green jobs for the future.”
17/06/2024
Faversham and Mid Kent, South East
“We need to do everything we can to move towards a society is circular and where we no longer have “waste”, just different resources.”
22/06/2024
Enfield North, London
“We must move urgently to a Circular Economy for our health, for prosperity, for the environment.”
10/06/2024
Witham, East of England
“I have been campaigning to support recycling and re-use of materials since the 1980s and am a leading member of the campaign against a waste incinerator being built here in mid-Essex at Rivenhall Airfield.”
08/06/2024
Reigate, South East
“Incineration of rubbish is more polluting than burning coal and disincentives waste reduction, reuse and recycling. We need to shift from our throwaway culture to a far less wasteful society to reduce the scale of resource use, both locally and globally. This must go far beyond better recycling to reuse and reducing how much we throw away in the first place. We can do this. But that requires leadership from government with stronger legislation and removing the incentives drive incineration.”
31/05/2024
Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Wales
“I’ve been an environmental campaigner since 1990. :-)”
26/06/2024
Nuneaton, West Midlands
“We need to properly get producers to make equipment repairable, fund recycling of packaging and use as much recycled material as possible to increase the circular economy.”
31/05/2024
York Central, Yorkshire and The Humber
“I am delighted to support this pledge, advocating for a reduction in waste and maximising our recycling efforts. Stopping the build of new incineration facilities and curbing waste incineration is crucial. Let’s champion reuse, repair, and recycling as keystones of our green economic transformation, recognising residue waste as a valuable resource to be harnessed, not destroyed.”
21/06/2024
Corby and East Northamptonshire, East Midlands
“Having campaigned against waste incineration for over a decade now it’s an honour to have been asked to sign this pledge. The reasons against incineration are clear, we just need the right people in the right places to allow our concerns to be taken further.”
03/06/2024
Edmonton and Winchmore Hill, London
“The apparent quick fix of burning all our excesses is akin to releasing sewage in our rivers and seas”
28/06/2024
Belfast North, Northern Ireland
“To continue to campaign for clean air that meets the World Health Organisation guidelines and to oppose incinerators as an energy form.”
02/07/2024
Chorley, North West
“I pledge to work to reduce existing incineration to a minimum, lobby for a moratorium on new incineration capacity and to increase recycling.”
06/06/2024
Halifax, Yorkshire and The Humber
“I fully support the move to a low (and eventually) zero waste economy. The use of incineration simply leads to a continuation of our throwaway society. I applaud the campaigners in Sowerby Bridge who are fighting incineration and are committed to a better, less destructive way of living in the future.”
03/07/2024
Darlington, North East
“Reusing and recycling are better value as well as being better for the environment. Rather than incinerating waste, we should focus on maximising re-use, recycling providing a weekly separate food collection. Places where incineration takes place have lower recycling rates because local authorities have taken their eyes off recycling.”
15/06/2024
Windsor, South East
“As much as 80% of the things we throw away could be recycled, I pledge to make recycling a priority when elected as the Green Party MP for Windsor. #KeepCalmAndVoteGreen #RealHopeRealChange #VoteGreen”
22/06/2024
North West Norfolk, East of England
“I have been campaigning since 2010 to oppose waste incineration in favour of more sustainable solutions and moving towards a circular economy. Waste incineration destroys valuable resources, generates huge carbon emissions in a climate emergency, is dirtier than coal fired power stations, creates pitiful amounts of electricity, landfills prodigious amounts of harmful ash and obstructs plans to reduce, reuse and recycle what we discard.”
25/06/2024
Droitwich and Evesham, West Midlands
“We have to get real about creating the circular economy, so we completely move away from both landfill and incineration. We need to use natural and recycled materials, make it so they are designed to last, easily repaired, can be upcycled or downcycled and then either recycled back into other products or carefully returned to the earth.”
13/06/2024
Jarrow and Gateshead East, North East
“The Green Party advocate for a circular economy that reduces the waste of resources.”
21/06/2024
Croydon West, London
“Plastics are made from fossil fuels, which we cannot depend on in the climate crisis we’re living through. We must do everything we can to reduce first, then repair and reuse, and finally recycle. The harmful use of waste incinerator must be minimised too. It’s bad for air quality, our lungs, and the planet.”
22/06/2024
Blaydon and Consett, North East
“Reducing, reusing and recycling waste are top priorities for the Green Party and I’m happy to sign the pledge.”
13/06/2024
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, North East
“I’ve been part of the Stop Incineration North East campaign since it was first started so of course I support this pledge.”
07/06/2024
Guildford, South East
“Burning rubbish – or ‘waste to energy’ as it’s sometimes known, to obscure its true nature – is enormously counter-productive, wasteful, and polluting. It creates toxic air pollution and fly ash, wastes the energy and resources in the materials, incentivises plastic production while actively reducing recycling rates, and is fundamentally unsustainable. We must instead reduce, repurpose, compost, or recycle, and redesign our economies to ensure everything can be dealt with sustainably.”
10/06/2024
Streatham and Croydon North, London
“In order to sustain our lives on the planet we really do need to reduce our consumption, reuse and get away from a throw away culture – we’ve way too much stuff! If we do need something then please recycle. Let’s make our world a better place.”
11/06/2024
East Surrey, South East
“I fought long and hard alongside UKWIN to try and stop the Beddington incinerator in South London. The decision went to judicial review in 2014. I was the claimant. The planning authority hired the top QCs in the country to win the judgement. Incineration is not the answer. Waste reduction, reusing and recycling is the answer.”
03/06/2024
Hemel Hempstead, East of England
“An easy pledge to make. As we Greens are dedicated to sensible use of our finite resources and to treat our environment with respect, the UKWIN objectives match closely with our longstanding ethos.”
01/07/2024
Barking, London
“Recycling is only essential at the moment because our entire economy is based on waste!”
03/07/2024
Brighton Pavilion, South East
“From championing a new right to repair to ending built in obsolescence, if elected I will advocate for a circular economy that reduces the waste of resources. No more incineration is key to that approach and I back the UKWIN pledge.”
11/06/2024
Oxford East, South East
“The Green Party believes that waste needs to be minimised, composted, recycled and reused, and there needs to be an end to plastic wrapping which makes up so much of our waste.”
10/06/2024
Carshalton and Wallington, London
“Incineration should be consigned to history.”
12/06/2024
Independent
Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham, Yorkshire and The Humber
“I strongly agree with the need to stop building new incineration capacity and to prioritize waste reduction, reuse, and recycling. The environmental impact of incineration in our region is significant, as highlighted in your email. It is essential that we shift our focus towards sustainable waste management practices to protect our environment and community.”
21/06/2024
Holborn and St Pancras, London
“Incineration results in toxic emissions & massive amounts of CO2. We need to generate far less waste & massively increase recycling rates.”
27/06/2024
Cambridge, East of England
“Recycling, reusing and minimising waste are the way forward, today, in this crowded planet, to reduce the burden on our environment, and, let’s face it, the ugly and unsustainable side of our consumer lifestyle. Less waste, more reuse? A more elegant and moral way of living.”
08/06/2024
North East Cambridgeshire, East of England
“I am a founder member of WisWin having called the first public meeting in Wisbech against the building of the Incinerator.”
16/06/2024
Poole, South West
“As well as releasing CO2 and dioxins into the atmosphere, incineration also releases PFAS WHICH SHOULD BE BANNED IMMEDIATELY.”
28/06/2024
North Northumberland, North East
“I do believe we should recycle more. I think we are behind everyone else by at least 10 years. In Germany they have bins for almost everything. They even allow you to recycle your own plastic pop bottles back to the super market. Which gives you a refund for the bottles and case. We also need to cut back our waste.”
18/06/2024
South West Wiltshire, South West
“I fully support the principles of UKWIN. We need to work together to reduce are waste, reuse and recycle – so we can all live in a more sustainable world.”
13/06/2024
Labour Party
Keighley and Ilkley, Yorkshire and The Humber
“If elected as the member of Parliament for Keighley and Ilkley my first parliamentary question will be to ask the Government what plans they have to bring in a moratorium on new incinerators in England as already exists in Scotland and Wales.”
31/05/2024
Washington and Gateshead South, North East
“It is imperative that we stop the creation of incineration plants and prioritise clean, green recycling solutions that are better for our communities and our environment. In 2019 Washington fought and won our own battle against an incineration plant that was proposed in my constituency, and I can’t thank UKWIN enough for the support and expertise they gave my campaign. I could not have done it without them.”
04/06/2024
Labour and Co-operative Party
Liberal Democrats
Ely and East Cambridgeshire, East of England
“We must reduce waste try to reuse, share or upcycle and where necessary recycle to keep waste out of landfill and incineration.”
20/06/2024
Corby and East Northamptonshire, East Midlands
“Pleased to support this pledge.”
28/06/2024
North East Cambridgeshire, East of England
“I oppose the planned incinerator in Wisbech. The LibDems support greater recycling of waste products which renders the proposed Wisbech incinerator not needed. The process has been a mess – with no respect for the concerns of local residents. They have been treated terribly and this has to stop!”
18/06/2024
Bassetlaw, East Midlands
“In 2019, Liberal Democrats committed to a statutory waste recycling target of 70% in England and strengthening incentives to reduce waste sent to landfill and incineration. In Bassetlaw, only 26.5% of household waste is sent for reuse, recycling, or composting. This is shameful.”
10/06/2024
Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley, West Midlands
“In 2019 the Lib Dem’s committed to a statutory waste recycling target of 70% in England and to strengthen incentives to reduce waste sent to landfill & incineration. Locally, in Birmingham I am a passionate supporter of increasing incentives to reduce, reuse and recycle and to lessen our dependence on the polluting Tyseley incinerator to burn the city’s waste.”
06/06/2024
Eastleigh, South East
“It is absolutely vital we maximise waste reduction, reuse and recycling and I fully support this pledge.”
17/06/2024
Preston, North West
“I want to see us reduce pollution, increase recycling and most importantly improve the health of people in the UK and particularly in Preston where we have some of the worst incidents of all three in places. Incineration is not the future and should be consigned to the waste heap of history!”
11/06/2024
North East Hertfordshire, East of England
“In 2019, the Liberal Democrats committed to a statutory waste recycling target of 70% in England and strengthening incentives to reduce waste sent to landfill and incineration.”
30/06/2024
Hampstead and Highgate, London
“Have long campaigned against the disastrous Edmonton Incinerator. Terrible plan with far better alternatives. Read more at: https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/21329257.edmonton-incinerator-disastrous-backwards-waste-money/.”
09/06/2024
Blyth and Ashington, North East
“I strongly support these proposals.”
18/06/2024
Liverpool Community Independents
Reform UK
Liverpool Wavertree, North West
“I fully endorse recycling and have supported recycling schemes in the past and at present. I help run litter picks that recycle plastic and cans, food waste turned to compost and recycling clothes, and furniture to charity shops. I support zero waste food and on a weekly basis re-distribute food to several households from collections points and a company shop in St. Helens. I wish to promote to the younger generation to make do and mend and bring clothes and household items back to use.”
11/06/2024
North East Cambridgeshire, East of England
“Clearly, I am concerned about how these developments get planning permission especially when they are close to towns and villages from a pollution perspective. Once up and running there will be hundreds of heavy trucks rumbling up and down roads which were never designed to handle this traffic and some Fen roads, as you’ll know, can be damaged very quickly. The answer is sustainability, i.e. less packaging, type of packaging, standardising components, and trying to reuse as much as possible.”
06/06/2024
Scottish Green Party
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, Scotland
“I’m a member of UKWIN and have been campaigning against incinerators for many years. I’m very happy that Greens secured a ban on new incinerators and want this kept and also want a gradual phasing out of existing ones as we move to a circular economy.”
06/06/2024
Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Scotland
“The data is clear: the more incinerators we have, the more our recycling rates decline. Burning waste is a cheaper option and less hassle than reduce/reuse/recycle for the producers of that waste, which leads to irresponsible behaviour. We must have a just transition to a circular economy and that means respecting and upholding the moratorium on new incineration. We must urgently move to a reduce/reuse/recycle model and lower our consumption significantly.”
24/06/2024
Bathgate and Linlithgow, Scotland
“Incinerators are a terrible option for processing waste, they blight environments and residential areas, there are far better sustainable options.”
17/06/2024
Social Democratic Party
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Southgate and Wood Green, London
“In order to stop and reverse climate change and fight its effects, a global systematic change is required. That means taking ownership and control out of the control of those who prioritise profit and into the hands of the working class to organise democratically on the basis of need. We stand for international solidarity and a socialist alternative. Transformation on the scale needed needs planning and coordination.”
27/06/2024
Sheffield Heeley, Yorkshire and The Humber
“Alongside the pledge of stopping new incineration capacity and minimising waste incineration we should be bringing waste management under public ownership to avoid issues such as Veolia bringing in medical waste and other pollutants alongside community control of these facilities. I would want to see climate change and pollution being seriously planned for, e.g. integrated transport system, insulation of homes, end to releasing of sewage in our rivers and waterways.”
11/06/2024
Transform Party
Bishop Auckland, North East
“We need to do things differently now for our children and theirs.”
08/06/2024
Workers Party of Britain
North East Cambridgeshire, East of England
“This can be stopped! Let’s stop it together.”
15/06/2024
Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend, North East
“Multi-National companies and the Government will have to work together to achieve carbon neutrality.”
18/06/2024
Acknowledgments
The UKWIN pledge facility used the Organic Campaigns iParl service alongside Democracy Club Candidates CSV data and the Postcode & Geolocation API for the UK brought together using custom coding by Only Solutions.