HC Deb 10 March 1989 vol 148 cc51-2W
Mr. Hoyle

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he received information from Cheshire

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county council or Colliers Waste Disposals, Rixton, that waste from the Chemstar plant at Stalybridge was dumped at Rixton following an accident there in 1981; when he was told of the materials that were dumped at Rixton; if he will list them; and whether there were any traces of dioxin in the materials that were dumped.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

[holding answer 23 February 1989]: The Department was informed early in February by Cheshire county council that some 2,500 drums of paint residues and pigments from the drum store of the Chemstar plant had been landfilled at the Colliers waste disposal landfill at Rixton. The records of special wastes for this site indicate that no dioxin contaminated wastes were deposited.