Melville Haggard, Markets Development Adviser, Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme, Defra

The Waste Infrastructure Delivery Programme (WIDP) was established to support local authorities to accelerate investment in the large-scale infrastructure required to treat residual waste, without compromising efforts to minimise waste and increase recycling levels.

WIDP works to ensure cost-effective and timely delivery of the major infrastructure required to bridge the shortfall in residual waste treatment capacity needed in order for England to meet its share of the UK’s Landfill Directive diversion targets.

Waste procurements involve a range of technologies including energy recovery.  The progressive convergence of energy and waste policy is creating markets for waste derived fuels and along with this the need to determine the energy attributable to the biomass content in such material.

[Melville Haggard works in the  WIDP team and is responsible for stimulating markets for solid recovered fuel and connected work in this area]