House Of Commons - SELECT COMMITTEE - REPORT ON HAZARDOUS WASTE - JULY 2002

The select committee on Environment, Food & Rural Affairs in July 2002 have issued a report on Hazardous waste management, which is now available on the HM Parliament website, see

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmenvfru/919/91902.htm

To quote from the report

68. The point of most immediate concern is 16 July 2002, when certain hazardous waste streams are banned from landfill altogether. In its written evidence, the Government told us that it had

"concluded that there was sufficient alternative disposal systems (in use or planned) to cope with the large volume of organic process waste streams requiring diversion from landfill [...but that] additional facilities might be required for oily wastes, contaminated soils, and inorganic chemical wastes."

Our new plants as recorded on this web-site are intended to provide some of the new capacity for oily wastes