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Alternative Fuels: Aviation

Commons · Question 49143 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 8 May 2025

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Asked by Euan Stainbank

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Waste Hierachy to place Sustainable Aviation Fuel produced by waste-to-liquid above that produced by energy-from-w

Answer

Answered by Mary Creagh, 8 May 2025

The waste hierarchy sets out a priority order in which waste should be managed (prevention, preparing for reuse, recycling, recovery, disposal). The process of converting waste (both biogenic and fossil fractions) into fuels/energy is a recovery operation...