Rethinking waste, reducing emissions: Hugh on BBC Radio 4

From BBC Radio 4 Today: Burning household rubbish in giant incinerators to make electricity is now the dirtiest way the UK generates power, BBC analysis has found. Prof Hugh Hunt, from the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge, tells #R4Today the use of incinerators 'doesn't do much' to reduce waste.

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald adds on Twitter: As [Hugh] said on [BBC Radio 4 Today], burning of household waste may have been justified when food waste was put into landfill. Now we're reducing that, landfill of dry non-recyclable waste is less damaging to the climate than burning it.

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Listen here (Hugh joins from 53:41)