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Written Question · S2W-04790 · Session 2

What percentage of landfill sites will be full by 2010 and what alternative methods of disposal will be used once waste landfill sites are …

Answered Asked by Roseanna Cunningham SNP Lodged 8 Dec 2003

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of landfill sites will be full by 2010 and what alternative methods of disposal will be used once waste landfill sites are filled.

The answer

Answered by Ross Finnie on 5 Jan 2004 · 28 days after it was lodged, on time

The National Waste Plan,published in February 2003, makes clear that, regardless of diversion targets,there will continue to be a need for landfill for the foreseeable future aspart of a strategy for disposing of those wastes which are not recovered orrecycled. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is currently undertaking ananalysis of landfill capacity.
The National Waste Plan alsooutlines the alternative methods of disposal which the Scottish Executive proposes. The plan is available at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/environment/natwasteplan.pdf.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-04790 by reference.