Looking Back at UK Landfill Practise and the Landfill Directive’s Ban on Co-disposal of Hazardous Waste with Industrial and Commercial Waste

Looking back at the effect the Directive’s ban on Co-Disposal has had on Hazardous Waste Disposal in the years since it was introduced in 2005.  The implementation of the Landfill Directive meant that landfill would never again be available in the UK as readily or as cheaply as it had always been. The UK government [...]

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State to Investigate Birth Defects in Kettleman City Landfill Suspected

The Waster has picked up the following news item about a new landfill birth defects scare. This is getting quite a lot of publicity, and of course it is always possible that the proximity of the landfill to these elevated birth defect rates might in some way be caused by the landfill. However, this has [...]

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