Just when you thought they couldn't come with something more insane than their last bright idea, comes this, from Dash 24:
Food waste could be banned from landfill under proposals being put out for consultation by the Government today. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn is launching a consultation into preventing an array of different types of rubbish which could be recycled or reused from going into the ground.
The Environment Department (Defra) and the Welsh Assembly are looking at the case for landfill restrictions on paper and card, food, textiles, metals, wood, garden waste, glass, plastics, and electrical and electronic equipment...
I struggle to think of much that isn't on that list, apart from disposable nappies. Any ideas?
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Thank god they missed ash from coal and wood burning fires!
Just flush food waste into the drain.
It's just normally goes via your intestines so they should cope.
I wonder does Hilary expect this to happen?
The blood-stained evidence that you always seem to end up with, no matter how careful you are, or how much plastic sheeting you use?
Or does that go in the green bin now? I can't keep track any more...
catpoo?
Anon, are you still allowed to burn coal and wood? Haven't they banned it yet?
AC1, I've seen that theory elsewhere, but can sewage works really cope?
JM, I think corpses are food waste so can't go to landfill... hey, what about cemeteries? Do they count as 'landfill'?
UKIP Environment spokesman Godfrey Bloom MEP said,
"The landfill directive was written to protect the Netherlands, which is as we all know largely beneath sea level and therefore at danger of leaching, it never had any real relevance to the UK. However the directive now forces the UK to comply with legislation that makes no sense here. Somebody has to pay the massive costs of this legislation. And we all know who that somebody is, the poor benighted taxpayer. They will pay it either through fines or tax. The only place money can come is from the people".
He went on, "It is transparently obvious that we should conserve resources, any responsible man woman or child would do so, but to sting British people to suit those that live on the expansive Dutch polders is madness"
'UKIP Environment spokesman Godfrey Bloom MEP said,
"The landfill directive was written to protect the Netherlands, which is as we all know largely beneath sea level and therefore at danger of leaching" '
Oh no it isn't!
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said on February 5 [2010] that just 26 percent of the country is below sea level.
While he's correct about the EU ukase against filling in unwanted holes, he then shoots himself directly in both feet.
Ceramics, including tiles, bricks and mixes with concrete and aggregates. I don't regard ceramics as a version of glass, although I suppose some people would argue they are both fired earth.
Some of my throwing-buns probably qualify. I can knock out a duck with one of those.
Some bugger dumped a wheel, with tyre, in my drive. How should I dispose of them?
(No, not dump them in someone else's drive.)
GT, ta.
VFTS, Bloom says "largely", you say "26 per cent", and?
That's certainly a far higher degree of accuracy than all the NIMBYs who wail that "We can't allow any new construction because Britain is already so crowded", when only about a tenth of GB by surface area is developed.
WOAR, that sounds like builder's rubble. You need to hire a skip for that. I think your buns still technically count as 'food'.
D, dump them in somebody else's drive of course :-)
Gawain
If true, it's in line with all EU and Labour policies.
It's a bit like the SS discovering a saboteur comes from a certain French village. They come and kill everyone and burn down the village, but the saboteur isn't there and continues to blow stuff up.
One for all and all for one! (God they are morons.)
Gawain got in first, but yes, I guarantee the fingers of the EU are all over this.
Hilary Benn, DEFRA, Welsh Assembly, nonsense, they are bowing, scraping and bending to obey their masters in Brussels.
Word Verif. - turdiste. Indeed
C, of course it's an EU thing, the whole landfill tax, recycling blah blah is all EU driven, I thought everybody knew that?
Miliband has said that there will not be any fines. None whatsoever. They have been specifically excluded from the document..
But he didn't say how much these fines that there aren't, won't be, when they don't come into force.
Since when have plastics (apart from plastic bottles) been recyclable? That's all my rubbish is these days, bloody plastic packaging.
OTOH wrf Hilary Benn et al: nothing is impossible for him who doesn't have to do it.
Under a 1999 EU directive, the UK must reduce the amount of biodegradable waste going to landfill sites by 25 per cent on 1995 levels by 2010, before hitting a 50 per cent target by 2013 and a 65 per cent goal by 2020.
If the UK does not meet the requirements, the country will face an initial fine thought to be around £180m. If the 2013 and 2020 targets are also missed, the fine would rise to an estimated £500m. The Local Government Association warned earlier this year that any fines would inevitably be passed on to businesses and households in the form of higher taxes.
http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2250132/businesses-key-fight-hit-eu
the country will face an initial fine thought to be around £180m. If the 2013 and 2020 targets are also missed, the fine would rise to an estimated £500m.
I don't see what the problem is - we can just deduct the fine from our normal EU contributions.
"The Environment Department (Defra) and the Welsh Assembly are looking at the case for landfill restrictions on paper and card, food, textiles, metals, wood, garden waste, glass, plastics, and electrical and electronic equipment..."
"Under a 1999 EU directive, the UK must reduce the amount of biodegradable waste going to landfill sites..."
Gold-plating, anyone? Since when have textiles, metals, glass, plastics, and electrical and electronic equipment been biodegradable?
Too many people - we need to cull a billion or so.
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