Dirty truths – Incineration and climate change

Tackling climate change is the major

environmental challenge of our times.

Friends of the Earth believes that all

government policies should be examined

for their climate change impacts, from

transport policy to waste policy.

At the same time, other environmental

challenges must not be ignored – climate

change may be the most immediate

environmental crisis, but we should not

ignore the possibility of others following on

from it. For example, in the case of waste

policy, it is vital that we also focus on

maximising resource efficiency and on

minimising pollution