HC Deb 08 June 2000 vol 351 cc312-3W
Mr. Mackinlay

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 25 May 2000,Official Report, column 570W, concerning the main waste disposal facilities in the East of England, if he will list the quantity of waste dealt with at each facility in 1998–99 or the nearest available year. [124804]

Mr. Mullin

[holding answer 7 June 2000]The quantity of waste dealt with, in tonnes of waste for 1998–99 (or the nearest available year), at the main waste disposal facilities in the East of England, is shown in the table.

Site operator Site location Type of facility Waste planning authority area Annual input (tonnes)
Cory Environmental Stanway 1 Essex 248,378
SITA Godmanchester 1 Cambridgeshire 240,510
Shanks & McEwan Arlesey 1 Bedfordshire 224,203
Lafarge Redland Radlett 1 Hertfordshire 2
Shanks & McEwan Dogsthorpe 1 Peterborough 212,052
Fenside Waste Management Warboys 1 Cambridgeshire 197,995
Star Quarry Products Hertford 1 Hertfordshire 2
Anti Waste Milton 1 Cambridgeshire 148,383
Greenways Waste Management Ongar 1 Essex 147,962
Cory Environmental 1 Barling Essex 144,722
Anti Waste Buckden 1 Cambridgeshire 139,980
Pioneer Aggregates Ltd. Ware Quarry 1 Hertfordshire 2
Hales Ugley Essex 1 118,028
Greenham Construction Materials Elsenham 1 Essex 115,780
Anti Waste Feltwell 1 Norfolk 113,055
Mick George Haulage Ltd. Southorpe Quarry 1 Peterborough 108,766
Hales Attlebridge 1 Norfolk 97,633
Lafarge Redland Roxwell 1 Essex 96,300
St. Albans Sand and Gravel Ware 1 Hertfordshire 2
St. Albans Sand and Gravel St. Albans 1 Hertfordshire 2
Suffolk Waste Disposal Co. Lackford 1 Suffolk 92,624
M Dickerson Hemingford Grey 1 Cambridgeshire 92,218
1Landfill
2Not available

The data for landfills in Hertfordshire is missing. This is because the Environmental Protection Act 1990 makes provision for licensees to request that such information be kept off the public register on the grounds of commercial confidentiality. The Agency is in the process of reviewing these cases.