Professor Hannah Daly:

I will speak briefly on AD but I am sure my colleagues will also have comments on this. Biofuels, like methane from anaerobic digestion, can be a very valuable way to turn a waste resource into a fuel and to solve a waste issue. The issue, among many, with using waste as a feedstock for biofuels inputs is that it is inherently unscaleable. The risk, depending on the financial arrangements, is that if you are creating incentives for AD, you are inherently incentivising a wasteful process. The current biofuel or biogas policy is not focused on small-scale gathering of waste as a resource and circling it back into local economies-----