Landfill
EDM number 633 in 2003-04, proposed by Caroline Spelman on 12/02/2004.
That this House notes that the UK sent 77 per cent. of its waste to landfill in 2001-02; and that the quantity of municipal waste going to landfill increased in quantity from 22.1 million tonnes to 22.3 million tonnes between 2000-01 and 2001-02; recognises that the EU Landfill Directive requires a reduction in landfill waste of 25 per cent. of 1995 levels by 2010; further notes that the Government's Strategy Unit report, Waste Not, Want Not, predicted that, on current trends, the volume of waste generated would be double the 1995 level by 2010; and calls on the Government to take substantive measures to reverse this regrettable increase in waste going to landfill through waste minimisation and recycling.
This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs.
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