What monitoring is carried out at landfill sites and their surrounding areas with regard to the sites' impact on health.

Responsibility for the protection of the health of local populations rests jointly with the local NHS board and the local authority. Monitoring of the local incidence of disease is a matter for these bodies. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is responsible for monitoring the environmental impacts of landfill sites, such as landfill gas and leachate, dust and noise and vibration.