Metals: Recycling

(asked on 14th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the exclusion of the metal recycling sector from the Red Diesel Replacement competition on that industry’s capacity to decarbonise.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 26th April 2022

The £40m Red Diesel Replacement (RDR) innovation programme focusses on construction/mining/quarrying sectors, accounting for 63% of UK red-diesel usage. https://www.e4tech.com/resources/248-e4tech-and-cenex-engage-sectors-that-use-red-diesel-to-identify-innovation-needs-for-low-carbon-alternatives.php. However, technologies developed and lessons learned through RDR will also benefit the metals recycling sector.

Other Government support includes:

  1. Phase-2 Industrial-Fuel-Switching Competition, £55m, Autumn 2022: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-fuel-switching-competition.
  2. Phase-4 Industrial-Energy-Efficiency-Accelerator, Value/Date TBC: https://programmes.carbontrust.com/ieea/participate-in-ieea/.
  3. Phase-9 Energy-Entrepreneur’s-Fund, £10m, 25 March 2022: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-entrepreneurs-fund-phase-9.
  4. Industrial-Energy-Transformation-Fund and Scottish-IETF, £289m and £34m, 31 January 2022 and Summer 2022: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/industrial-energy-transformation-fund.
  5. Spring Budget 2021: 1 April 2021 until 31 March 2023, companies can claim 130% first-year capital allowances on qualifying plant/machinery investments.
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