A legal analysis of Waste-to-Energy under the EU Taxonomy

Industrial Process News – 23 October 2020

FEAD, the European Waste Management Association, commissioned to the consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers a legal analysis and interpretation of the Taxonomy Regulation with regards to the question of whether waste incineration for energy recovery (WtE), fulfilling R1 energy recovery criteria, can be considered an environmentally sustainable economic activity. This clarity is needed ahead of the detailed definition of ‘sustainable activities’ and ‘green investments’ in the future Taxonomy.