List of incinerators in the United Kingdom

The following is a list of incinerators in the UK that treat municipal waste:

Operating

Leeds RERF

• NESS Energy Project, Aberdeen
• Allerton waste recovery park, North Yorkshire ^[1]
• Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility
• Ardley ERF
• Baldovie WtE (Dundee)
• Beddington Energy Recovery Facility (Sutton, London)
• Bolton WtE
• Chineham EfW
• Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre
• Crossness STW Sludge Powered Generator (Belvedere, London)
• CSWDC (Coventry)
• Devonport Dockyard Incinerator ^[2]
• Dudley EfW
• Eastcroft EfW (Nottingham)
• Exeter ERF ^[3]
• Fawley Incinerator
• Ferrybridge Multifuel 1 (West Yorkshire)
• Ferrybridge Multifuel 2, (West Yorkshire)
• Glanford Power Station
• Gloucestershire EfW ^[4]
• Great Blakenham
• Greatmoor EfW (Buckinghamshire)
• Hartlebury EfW
• Isle of Man Incinerator
• Isle of Wight gasification facility
• Kirklees EfW
• La Collette WtE (Jersey)
• Lakeside EfW (Colnbrook)
• Leeds RERF
• Lerwick Incinerator
• Lincoln ERF (Lincolnshire)
• London EcoPark (Edmonton, London)
• Marchwood ERF
• Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre ^[5]
• Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park
• Newhaven ERF
• Newlincs EfW facility
• North Hykeham Incinerator
• Peterborough ERF
• Portsmouth ERF
• Red Moss Landfill
• Riverside Resource Recovery ERF (Belvedere, London)
• Runcorn EfW
• SELCHP (South Bermondsey, London)
• Sheffield ERF
• Shrewsbury Incinerator
• Staffordshire ERF (Four Ashes)
• Stoke EfW
• Teesside EfW
• Thetford Incinerator (Biomass)
• Tyseley Energy from Waste Plant
• Westfield Incinerator (Poultry litter)
• Westfield Energy Recovery Facility, Fife ^[6]
• Wolverhampton EfW

Under construction

• Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre, Bristol
• Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility, Bedfordshire ^[7]

• Portland Port, Dorset

Decommissioned

• Bellozanne Incinerator
• Byker Incinerator
• Gateshead Incinerator
• Polmadie Incinerator
• Portrack Incinerator
• South Shields Incinerator
• Sunderland Incinerator
• Tynemouth Incinerator

References

1. Bean, Dan (6 March 2018). "New incinerator is up and running". York Press. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
2. "Controversial Plymouth incinerator hits full operation". Resource Magazine.
3. "Viridor". Viridor.
4. "Inside the £633m Javelin Park incinerator where your waste is being burned at 850 degrees". Gloucestershire Live. 14 January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
5. Hay, Katharine (23 September 2019). "A first look at Edinburgh's first multi-million pound energy saving waste plant". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
6. "Cost of new Fife energy plant reached almost £300 million". The Courier. 25 August 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
7. "Time-lapse construction video - Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility". Doran Consulting. 6 November 2019.

External lists

• UKWIN list of around 23 existing and 80 potential facilities
• Channel 4 News list of 30 incinerators being "seriously considered or planned by councils"
• Defra list of PFI projects (some include incineration)
• Environment Agency's Waste Incineration Spreadsheet (2006) ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
• Tradebe Fawley