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Dept of the Environment

Answer

Mrs. Helen Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 11 February, Official Report, column 101, if he will list the locations of the (a) incinerators and (b) tyre-burning plant tested for emissions in respect of the burning of cattle carcases; and if he will reconcile the figures for the total number of incineration plants set out in his answer and in the answer from the Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of 11 February, Official Report, column 145-46. [16249] Mr. Clappison: [holding answer 17 February 1997]: The incinerators are: Rechem, Fawley, Hampshire, Rechem, Pontypool, Gwent, Yorkshire Environmental, Knostrop, Leeds, Yorkshire Environmental, Ashford, Kent; Vetspeed, Royston, Herts. The tyre burning plant is Elm Energy, Wolverhampton. The answers given by me and by my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Agriculture on 11 February related to the questions asked. The Prosper de Mulder rendering plant at Widnes is the subject of an air pollution authorisation from the local authority, Halton borough council. Emmisions testing has taken place. The incinerator at Vetspeed, Royston, burns cattle carcasses, not rendered remains. The trial incineration of tannery waste at Pontypool, Knostrop, Ashford and Wolverhampton was listed in my reply for completeness, although rendering of tannery waste is not a process which meets the definition of rendering in the Animal By-Products Order 1992 and these incinerators were not, therefore, included in my hon. Friend's reply.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

16249; 290 c450W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Incinerators Meat products Waste disposal BSE