Toxic Waste Management

EDM number 619 in 1992-93, proposed by Frank Cook on 21/10/1992.

That this House is dismayed at the many serious problems caused by the need to dispose safely of toxic wastes from industrial, municipal and medical sources; understands the justifiable opposition of those communities adjacent to existing or proposed facilities designated for such use; recognises that the solution is not to increase disposal capacity, but to implement a programme to tackle such problems appropriately upstream by waste reduction application of clean technologies and adoption of recycling techniques; and finally calls upon Her Majesty's Government to devise effective incentives to encourage adoption of such a programme at the earliest date.

This motion has been signed by a total of 73 MPs.