The nonsense is as a result of another piece of political "one-upmanship" from the EU, this time trying show the rest of the World how superior it's Green Credentials are when compared to theirs. As usual, the beauty, from the EU's point of view, is that they can claim all the credit whilst National Governments have to solve the problems created and extort the costs from their populations.
EU Landfill Directive
The Directive's overall aim is "to prevent or reduce as far as possible negative effects on the environment, in particular the pollution of surface water, groundwater, soil and air, and on the global environment, including the greenhouse effect, as well as any resulting risk to human health, from the landfilling of waste, during the whole life-cycle of the landfill".
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/.../landfill-dir/
Here, of course, this has been devolved by Westminster to the Scottish Executive and from there to SEPA.
The below site gives details of how SEPA intend to deal with the situation should anybody wish to wade through all the details. (I certainly don't)
SEPA
http://www.sepa.org.uk/nws/index.htm
If anybody would like to explain how transporting rubbish using a 400 mile round trip instead of burying it within a few miles of where it is created is of benefit to the environment I am quite willing to be educated.
In the meantime I will simply dismiss the whole charade as nothing more than the Pathetic Panderings of Pretentious Politicians to Popular Perceptions Perpetrated on the Population by+ Pompous Posers.
And if anybody think I am being a little excessive in my contempt I am mindful that SEPA seem to also be of the opinion that, under EU Rules, the excessive spreading of Top Soil on Fields also constitutes an Environmental Problem.
So when I've finished composting everything in sight what do I do with it then? Can't spread it, can't bury it, can't burn it, can't dump it in the sea, can't stuff it - well, never mind!
Saw a good POW Escape Movie once but what do i do when my loft is full of the darned stuff?
Animals I like, people I tolerate.
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