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Scottish ESA asks Scottish Government to act on Audit Scotland report
14.01.2010
Audit Scotland has today warned that local authorities have not made sufficient plans to meet Scotland's recycling targets beyond 2010.
Welcoming the report "Protecting and Improving Scotland’s Environment", Dirk Hazell, for the Scottish ESA, commented:
"SESA understands the Scottish Government's ambition in seeking recycling targets even higher than those in the EU Waste Framework Directive. However, the Scottish Government’s procurement framework and the planning system must then empower our industry, and our local authority partners, to invest in the required recycling and recovery infrastructure to divert waste from landfill."
"Securing plans for investment in new facilities, particularly for strategic residual waste treatment facilities, has proved challenging since the disbanding in 2008 of the strategic partnerships between groups of local authorities."
"We hope that the Scottish Government and local authorities will be better placed to act on Audit Scotland’s recommendation following publication of the Zero Waste Plan. SESA believes the Scottish Government's ambitions for Scotland's future recycling and landfill diversion would best be secured by designating waste management development as national development in the next review of Scotland's National Planning Framework."
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