{"id":6215,"date":"2015-01-28T09:41:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T09:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2015-01-28T09:41:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T09:41:35","slug":"a-burning-esd-2-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/28\/a-burning-esd-2-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"A burning ESD 2 issue ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's some more\u00a0on \"energy\" from waste [ EfW ]. \u00a0I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/14\/energy-from-waste-its-a-good-thing-just-dont-mention-the-i-word\/\">commented<\/a> on the language difficulties around all this a week or so ago, after a recent visit to Devon's EfW plant in Exeter.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.private-eye.co.uk\/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&amp;\">Private Eye<\/a> has a story about the politics of EfW and the interplay between\u00a0the Secretary of State, independent government inspectors, and the supposedly-independent Environment Agency. \u00a0Much here on conflicts of interest, health issues down-wind of EfW plants, and the financial tightrope to be walked in getting economics and waste reduction (and availability!) in some sort of dynamic balance within EU regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the nuts and bolts of energy from waste might be great for an ESD 1-style environmental science approach, you have to add in the politics and economics of it all for ESD 2-style explorations\u00a0which add human social interest(s) to environmental topics.<\/p>\n<p>Is anyone daring to do\u00a0this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's some more\u00a0on \"energy\" from waste [ EfW ]. \u00a0I commented on the language difficulties around all this a week or so ago, after a recent visit to Devon's EfW plant in Exeter. Now Private Eye has a story about...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}