UK Without Incineration Network

At COP31, where zero waste is a major climate priority, representatives of the incineration industry are expected to participate in discussions about circular cities and climate finance. We are calling on the #COP31 Presidency and climate finance institutions to keep #IncineratorsOutOfCOP31! 1/2

🔥We'll be talking about the problems with incineration in the UK in an hour. Register now: www.no-burn.org/event/whats-... #NoBurn

Read the community guide: www.no-burn.org/resources/waste-burning-101 #NoBurn #ClimateAction

Our new publication, The Burn Book: Incinerators that Threaten the Climate, Public Health, and Our Finances, exposes the facts behind the harms of waste burning. Swipe for some of the alarming data! Read: no-burn.org/burnbook-sto... #NoBurn #GoForZeroWaste #climatejustice Global Week of Action

Please let your group know about the webinar due to happen on Thursday 15th October from 3:30pm UK time - www.no-burn.org/event/whats-...

One year of action lost. The government promised to release its Circular Economy Growth Plan by October last year. 365 days later, we’re still waiting.

"As it turns out, plastic pyrolysis plants aren’t magic cauldrons that can transform any old plastic waste into a petrochemical feedstock." I could have told them that. Oh, wait -- we did tell them that! Years ago! cen.acs.org/business/con...

📢✍♻ WRITE TO YOUR MP TO SUPPORT RECYCLING by asking them to support the call from 40 environmental groups urging the Government to move the UK away from harmful incineration and towards reduction, re-use and recycling. ukwin.eaction.org.uk/incineration

After years of negotiations, the 🇪🇺 Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) officially applies as of today! 🎉 Now it's up to national governments to take action📣 #WeChooseReuse #endplasticpollution #ToxicFreeFuture #EU

A local US win against a plastic-burning pyrolysis facility! Congratulations and thanks to the effort of the community in Licking County, the Buckeye Environmental Network, and the incredible movement that made this possible. READ: benohio.org/freepoint-ec... #BurnNot, #GoForZeroWaste! #NoBurn

A massive plastic pellet spill is threatening North Sea wildlife 🌊 Coastal communities are stepping up, but we need action. Join us and ask @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch an emergency response & hold polluters accountable! #NurdleSpill #StopPollution action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tyn...

39 environmental groups have written to the new Circular Economy Minister, urging the Government to take stronger action to move away from incineration and towards recycling. Ask your MP to join this call: ukwin.eaction.org.uk/incineration

"This week’s heatwave is a stark reminder of what is at stake. Climate change is no longer a distant threat sometime in the future; it is here now, affecting lives, livelihoods and public services across our country, and especially in London." 💬 @fleuranderson.bsky.social

We're concerned about how the proposed Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 would mean many incinerator planning applications could be determined by Officers not Planning Committees. We hope that MPs reject this anti-democratic move!

💥Breaking news💥 124 groups signed a declaration calling on the #COP31 Presidency to "set a high bar for climate ambition by advancing a comprehensive zero waste agenda that addresses the root causes of waste &emissions." ➡️ for quotes from the Microplastic Research Group, Greenpeace Turkiye & GAIA.

I've signed this petition calling on Armagh, Banbridge, and Craigavon Borough Council to reject the application for a waste incinerator at Milltown Road - will you sign too? @actnowcampaigns.bsky.social my.actnowni.org/petitions/st...

What is #zerowaste? In this blog, GAIA’s Global Zero Waste Cities Director Cecilia Allen urges everyone to “honor zero waste’s true spirit that drives systems change.” Reject harmful WTEs & false solutions, #GoForZeroWaste! READ: https://www.no-burn.org/defending-the-real-spirit-of-zero-waste/

There’s always something left behind when incinerators burn waste – ash, bits of ceramic, microplastics, metals, as well as a plethora of PFAS and POPs, many of them toxic to our health. What could one possibly do with such a hazardous mixture? Surely not allow it to enter the environment? 😬⚠️

For 22 years, @ukwin.bsky.social has made sure no community had to face an incinerator alone. 🔥🚫 We sat down with Shlomo Dowen (UKWIN coordinator) to trace how isolated local groups grew into a connected movement pushing back against incineration across the UK 🔗 Watch full interview: zurl.co/floJm

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Tell Government to do more to tackle plastic and plastic incineration: ukwin.eaction.org.uk/plastic

🔥🧪A new long-awaited consultation on the UK’s furniture fire safety regulations is now open This is an important opportunity to promote effective and sustainable #FireSafety approaches for furniture without relying on harmful chemical #FlameRetardants. Find out more➡️ fidra.org.uk/news/new-con...

Thanks to everyone who took part in this year's Big Plastic Count. Too much plastic is being incinerated! This is terrible, as each tonne of plastic that is incinerated releases more than 2 tonnes of CO2. The plastics tap must be switched off. thebigplasticcount.com

📢 Next year, all our bin collections are changing as plastic film recycling collections are introduced. 38 groups say policy makers across the UK must make sure their plans are sustainable, fair and safe (including by avoiding incinerator lock-in): foe.scot/press-releas...

For comms, the needs of the audience must be no. 1️⃣ – and no matter who you’re trying to communicate to, they’re people first. ZWE's Head of Comms, @anaoliveira0519.bsky.social, sums it up: people connect with people, and a story always sticks with you more than any number could. zurl.co/DtDUo

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From Lisbon to Ljubljana, 50 city officials, policymakers, & reuse pioneers are in DK today, and we couldn't be more excited 🦢 Together with Aarhus and Copenhagen, and with the support of TOMRA, New Loop and Mission Zero Academy, we’re kicking off a 2-day study tour on scaling urban reuse systems.

Please use the following link to register for this year's Big Plastic Count: tbpc2026.com/ukwin

The Big Plastic Count is back! Join the tens of thousands taking part in the UK’s biggest people-powered investigation into household plastic waste to uncover the true scale of the UK’s plastics crisis and to call on the government to do more. Sign up to count your plastic at tbpc2026.com/ukwin

Together with 29 other charities, community groups and campaigners, we have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy warning of grave missed opportunities in the Scottish Government's draft Circular Economy Strategy ✉️ www.scotsman.com/news/politic... (1/3)

25 years of community, movement-building & power. ▶️Our new video celebrates our collective achievements at GAIA, from our earliest days to a global network of 1,000+ organizations. Thank you for helping build a world that refuses to burn &chooses #zerowaste instead. #GAIA25 #PowerofMovementBuilding

🔴 BREAKING: Analysis from @oilchange.bsky.social and @corporateeurope.org reveals €17+ billion of public funds poured into #CCS in Europe since 2001. After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum. Read more 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...

Please ask your MP to vote against incineration on Tues 25 November as per page 25 commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/991... Dr Andrew Murrison MP secured a 10-minute rule motion on waste incineration. Contact your MP ask them to vote to support this bill: ukwin.eaction.org.uk/NoMoreIncine...

I just wrote a @stopburningtrees.bsky.social letter to Drax's partners and the DSIT calling on them to reject and cut ties with Drax's AI Data Centre. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/say-...

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"If we want a fairer, circular future, we must stop building more incinerators and instead invest in solutions that cut plastic production, reduce waste, and scale up reuse and recycling." Check out the Everyday Plastic blogpost at: www.everydayplastic.org/blog/2025/9/... #betterthanburning

Care about ♻recycling♻, 🌎the environment🌎, ☁air quality☁? Write to your English MP calling on them to press the UK Government to better regulate waste incineration and prioritise recycling because we can do #BetterThanBurning! ukwin.eaction.org.uk/NoMoreIncine...

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🚨 Harmful chemicals from waste incineration found in French schools 🚨 Waste incineration is neither safe nor sustainable, putting human health & the environment at risk. These findings are yet more evidence of that. It’s time to make waste incineration a thing of the past. Report: zurl.co/iLYBa

@ollyglover.bsky.social Thanks for taking up the issue of incineration being a barrier to the circular economy with Defra Olly!

🏭🔥♻🖉 Call on your MP to press Government to update waste planning policies, strengthen incineration industry regulation, and begin work on new measures to halve residual waste. ukwin.eaction.org.uk/NoMoreIncine...

We need to cut plastics production but fossil fuel lobbyists are blocking this. The fight goes on. Camilla Berens from Greenwich & Lewisham Greenpeace reports www.salamandernews.org/25-08-plasti...

Our plastic waste is burnt here in New Cross. Ever worried about what might be coming from the flue? www.salamandernews.org/25-08-discar...

There would be no ZWE without Joan Marc Simon—that's a fact 💯 When he founded ZWE in 2010, he knew something needed fixing: our broken system churning out mountains of waste. 15 years later, JM's mission is as clear as ever: developing economic incentives. Learn more: zurl.co/10YEB #MeetTheTeam

Sensemaker podcast by @theobserveruk.bsky.social has spoken to campaigners against the Jurassic Coast incinerator proposed for Portland. It was recorded before the good news about leave to appeal the planning legal challenge was granted. observer.co.uk/listen/today...

The folly of long-term incinerator contracts northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

MPs told Parliament about incineration: Baggy Shanker, Catherine Atkinson, Ben Obese-Jecty, Lee Barron, Samantha Niblett, Lincoln Jopp, Julie Minns, Jeremy Corbyn, Lloyd Hatton, Steve Barclay, Josh Fenton-Glynn, Euan Stainbank, Luke Taylor, and Robbie Moore. See www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

Is your MP speaking at tomorrow's Parliamentary debate on waste incinerators to be held tomorrow (3rd April) from 1:30pm? Watch it live online at: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...