Where will your waste go when landfill sites are full?
Information and reference
Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme
The Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme (LATS) introduces
significant and innovative changes in waste policy and practice for
the diversion of biodegradable municipal waste from landfill. It is
intended to provide a cost effective way of enabling England to
meet its targets for reducing the landfilling of biodegradable
municipal waste under Article 5(2) of the EC Landfill
Directive.
The documents below appear in Adobe® Acrobat® (PDF) format. In order to view them you will need to have Acrobat Reader installed. (Those with visual impairments may wish to investigate Access Adobe, which provides tools and information to help make PDF files more accessible.)
PM2.5 Particulates
A new EU air quality directive has been proposed to monitor particulates released from energy-from-waste facilities. This document explains the background.
(58 KB, 2 pages)
Health Protection Agency
Position statement on municipal solid waste
incineration.
(33 KB, 4 pages)
The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators
The Health Protection Agency
The Health Protection Agency has published this critique of a
report entitled 'The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators'
published by the British Society for Ecological Medicine
(BSEM).
Health Effects of Municipal Waste
Incinerators
Dieter Schrenk's literature surveyModern municipal waste incinerators can be regarded as safe
facilities which have an imperceptible impact on the environmental
and health situation in their neighbourhood, concludes this
literature survey conducted by Dieter Schrenk, MD PhD, Professor of
Toxicology at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, dated June
2006.
Notes from PECT meeting 20 February 2007
Peterborough Environment City Trust's (PECT) - Debate on proposal for energy resource recovery facility (ERRF)
(20 KB, 4 pages)