Council warning on waste targets

Councils in England have been warned they face multi-million pound fines if they miss EU targets for reducing the waste they send to landfill sites. EU rules on cutting landfill waste come into force in 2010.

Despite increasing the amount of rubbish recycled four-fold in ten years, half the waste produced still ends up in landfill, producing the potent greenhouse gas, methane.

Many councils favour incineration as the best way of dealing with residual waste, but despite a cleaner and safer generation of incinerators, many campaign groups are fighting schemes, preferring methods like the mechanical and biological treatment of waste.

View Full Article 25^th September 2008

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