HC Deb 24 April 1990 vol 171 cc147-8W
Mr. Andrew Welsh

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will identify the location and status of waste disposal sites in Scotland by waste disposal authority, waste type, town, location of facility, name of facility and land size.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

District and islands councils as waste disposal authorities maintain public registers which provide up-to-date information on waste disposal activities in Scotland. The full data requested are not held centrally.

A survey by the Scottish Development Department in 1989 indicated that licences and council resolutions had been issued in respect of 835 waste disposal facilities in Scotland. Of these, 700 licences and resolutions related to landfill sites and the balance to other operations such as incinerators, transfer stations, baling plants and civic amenity sites.

The table gives the number of open and closed landfill sites and other types of facility for each waste disposal authority.

Landfill sites
District/Islands council Open Closed Other waste disposal facilities
Berwickshire 3 0 0
Ettrick and Lauderdale 5 2 0
Roxburgh 3 0 0
Tweeddale 1 1 0
Clackmannan 7 3 1
Falkirk 19 5 9
Stirling 8 0 1
Annandale and Eskdale 3 3 2
Nithsdale 6 0 1
Stewartry 10 2 0
Wigtown 9 0 1
Dunfermline 19 6 2
Kirkcaldy 17 6 1
North East Fife 10 2 4
Aberdeen 16 4 6
Banff and Buchan 19 10 6
Gordon 12 4 1
Kincardine and Deeside 9 7 0
Moray 9 2 5
Badenoch and Strathspey 2 2 0
Caithness 7 1 1
Inverness 1 1 2
Lochaber 8 2 0
Nairn 0 0 0
Ross and Cromarty 5 3 0
Skye and Lochalsch 3 0 0
Sutherland 8 0 3
East Lothian 10 6 1
Edinburgh 13 15 7
Midlothian 9 12 0
West Lothian 19 14 3
Argyll and Bute 1 0 2
Bearsden and Milngavie 0 0 1
Clydebank l 3 1
Clydesdale 8 3 0
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 9 6 1
Cumnock and Doon Valley 3 3 1
Cunninghame 16 7 8
Dumbarton 5 1 4
East Kilbride 10 1 2
Eastwood 3 1 2
Glasgow 17 24 16
Hamilton 10 0 3
Inverclyde 4 4 4
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 4 3 2
Kyle and Carrick 4 3 1
Monklands 6 6 1
Motherwell 8 3 7
Renfrew 17 15 3
Strathkelvin 13 5 1
Angus 11 6 0
Dundee 6 3 4
Perth and Kinross 24 8 4
Orkney 15 4 2
Shetland 6 0 3
Western Isles 7 0 5
478 222 135