Defra: increasing the long-term resilience and robustness of waste infrastructure to the impacts of climate change

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has issued a call to tender for research on increasing the long-term resilience and robustness of waste infrastructure to the impacts of climate change.

The aim of the work is to: examine the short, medium and long term impacts of climate change on waste infrastructure – this should include the international implications of climate change for waste disposal and processing, including where relevant supply chains and the use of infrastructure in other countries for treatment of the UK’s waste; examine the technical implications on waste infrastructure and what this means operationally to the sector; examine how waste infrastructure needs to adapt to climate change and identify any possible opportunities for the sector; examine the barriers to adapting waste infrastructure to climate change; identify changes required to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change and recommendations for action.