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glacio

Posted 2012-10-22 20:09 (#1137)
Subject: Green Waste in the Countryside

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Dave Allison from Muir of Ord has sent this e-mail with a link to Youtube and a Petition for the Government.

Do give it some attention. Thanks

Hi
Transition Black Isle,

Are you aware of "Green Waste" being spread on Highland land?

See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDq9Ai_p7TI

and the petition
Ban 'Green' Waste being dumped on the Countryside
Responsible department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
at
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/30392

Dave Allison

Mob: 07748468457
Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, Highlands

Martin

Posted 2012-10-22 21:49 (#1138 - in reply to #1137)
Subject: Re: Green Waste in the Countryside

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Is Dave suggesting this is happening locally? And if so, what's the story?Surely he's not suggesting that some government agency is dumping waste on farmland without the consent of the owners?

Anne Thomas

Posted 2012-11-12 09:26 (#1152 - in reply to #1137)
Subject: Re: Green Waste in the Countryside

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It looks like it's just not been screened properly for contaminants. This could either be done by the council before the farmers get it or by the farmers before they spread it. It looks like sometimes neither can be bothered. There are proposals to autoclave rubbish before it's recycled or used for energy and fertiliser and that process would presumably make it easier to sort. http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Home/Super-waste-plant-to-be-bui... However this is 'black bag' waste. It's assumed the green waste is 'green'. I think often the problem is that the brown bins are used by passers by to dump whatever they want to dispose of and the rubbish is not then checked at any stage.

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