Ban Landfill And Pre-Treat

摘要

The Scottish Government's plans to introduce landfill bans and enforce the pre-treatment of all residual waste was launched for consultation last month. The consultation outlines the proposed regulatory changes that, if agreed, will be delivered as part of the Zero Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2011. The changes include a ban on mixing separately collected recyclable materials -once separately collected they must be managed in a way that does not compromise their quality; a ban on landfilling the key recyclable materials; a restriction on the inputs to energy from waste (EfW) facilities - unsorted wastes will no longer go directly to EfW without being pre-treated, providing a second opportunity to remove recyclate missed at the source segregation stage; a property based ban on waste disposed of to landfill [based on organic content - proposed in order to protect the environment from the potential impacts of landfilling biodegradable waste; and making source segregation and separate collections of key recyclable materials a statutory duty.