§ Adam PriceTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what plans she has to reduce the amount of hazardous and industrial waste sent to landfill sites for disposal. [35631]
§ Mr. MeacherThe forthcoming landfill regulations which will implement the EC Landfill Directive in England and Wales reduce the amount of hazardous waste going to landfill by banning, from July 2002, the landfilling of hazardous liquid wastes and any hazardous wastes which in the conditions of landfill are explosive, corrosive, oxidising, highly flammable or flammable.
More widely, in Waste Strategy 2000, we have set a target to reduce the amount of industrial and commercial waste sent to landfill by 2005 to 85 per cent. of that landfilled in 1998.