News Category: State of the Waste Industry
Source Separation Trends in The UK
30 September 2009
With 73 authorities in the UK now offering kerbside collection of source separated organic waste, the UK is racing to meet the EU Landfill Directive. The past 15 years have seen significant investment and development of the biowaste collection and treatment industry in the UK, which has gone from virtually zero to an industry worth over £160 million. Driving this investment has been a number of regulatory and fiscal measures such as the first set of Landfill Directive targets due in 2010. The Landfill Directive itself does not stipulate how these targets should be reached, and for many years there have been calls for a separate Directive on biowaste. Proponents of the “Biowaste Directive” have long argued that without a legal requirement for separate collection, and in the absence of any binding quality criteria for final products (composts and digestates), a huge opportunity to improve the quality of soil across the EU, whilst simultaneously addressing the landfill issue, is being lost. The full text of the article is available here: http://www.jgpress.com/archives/_free/001920.html |
