CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Figure 1: Municipal waste treatment,
Europe 2009
Box 1: Definitions
Chapter 2: The Opportunity
Figure 2: Feedstocks, processes and products
in a bioeconomy
Feedstocks
Processes
Figure 3: Gas fermenting microbes
Figure 4: The integrated biorefinery concept
Products
Box 2: Case studies: sustainable aviation
fuels—Virgin Atlantic and British Airways
Waste as a resource
Figure 5: Sources, types and treatments of
waste in the whole of the UK in 2010
Figure 6: Quantity of biowaste and waste
plastic recorded in the UK per annum
Economic opportunity
Environmental opportunity
Chapter 3: Key Issues
Research and Development
Information on Waste
Data on waste
Whole Systems Analysis
Availability of Waste
Waste collection and planning
Export of waste
Stimulating Investment
Reducing risk
Box 3: Centre for Process Innovation
Incentives
Box 4: Incentives
Chapter 4: Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations
Government strategy
Research and Development
Information on Waste
Availability of Waste
Stimulating Investment
Appendix 1: Members and Declarations of Interest
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
Appendix 4: Seminar held at the House of
Lords
Appendix 5: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix 6: Recent Reports from the House
of Lords Science and Technology Committee
NOTE: Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/hlscience
and available for inspection at the Parliamentary
Archives (020 7219 5314)
References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:
Q refers to a question in oral evidence;
Witness names without a question reference refer
to written evidence
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