The majority of food, plastics, textiles, wood and to a lesser extent glass still go to landfill via ‘trade waste’ containers from commercial businesses because it’s easy (lazy) and commands a higher price per lift when a waste management company empties it’s 1100 litre eurocart, skip, front or rear end loader container.
By banning the dumping of the aforementioned commodities into landfill the Government would in one stroke add the equivalent of a Nitrous oxide injection to the recycling sector.
Hilary Benn fully appreciated the fact that the UK needs time to build a national network of MRFs (Material Recycling Facility), waste derived fuel incinerators, aerobic and anaerobic digesters and a ‘bedding in’ period would have been programmed into legislation to allow for this.
Backed up with the ‘stick’ of higher LFT (Landfill Tax) the market would then have found it’s natural level with the producer paying indirectly for the change away from landfill.
Not surprisingly the UK’s landfill operators don’t like the idea of diverting big revenue away from their holes (albeit well managed ones) and would you Adam and Eve it – Lord Henley the anti ‘gay rights’, anti ‘Europe integration’ and moderately against the hunting ban Conservative Peer has seen things from their point of view – strange that?
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I think the UK is running out of Landfill sites, I was wondering where Lord Henley lives, or perhaps the homes of the rest of ConDemNation minsters, the just apply for planning permission to convert their homes into Landfill sites. Yes this is a Stupid comment but so is government policy.
Hello WA
Apparently we have 6 years of landfill in the south of England left. This I feel is a figure totally invented by operators of, errrrr, oh yes - landfills.
Regardless - this legislation would have kick started the recycling industry well however Henley doesn't see it that way unless of course he has been bunged but he wouldn't - would he?
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