§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what work has been done by his Department on the use of pneumatic pipelines for the transmission of waste by capsules.
§ Mr. Denis HowellWork has been sponsored by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory into the technical feasibility of transporting waste materials in pneumatic pipeline systems. A working party set up by the four county councils in the Yorkshire and Humberside area, on which my Department is repre-156W casts of demand in 1981, 1991 and 2001 ; the actual and forecast future direct abstraction for industry :
seated, has commissioned a specialist study of pipeline transport.
§ Mr. Skeetasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether a major pipeline is envisaged for the transmission of colliery spoil and flash from Yorkshire to the Humber estuary.
§ Mr. Denis HowellThe possibility of a pipeline, together with its possible size and route, is one of several means of transporting solid wastes now being investigated by a working group representing waste disposal authorities in the Yorkshire and Humberside Region.