{"id":244244,"date":"2025-11-04T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244244\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:34:08","slug":"landfill-ban-delayed-by-two-years-after-bbc-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244244\/","title":{"rendered":"Landfill ban &#8216;delayed&#8217; by two years after BBC investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as the visual impact on communities, landfill is seen as the least environmentally sustainable way of handling waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It involves dumping the waste in a huge hole in the ground and covering it over with soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Landfill taxes have made the option progressively more expensive that incineration, where the rubbish is burnt in a furnace to create electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Efforts to encourage us to recycle have barely budged the dial in Scotland, even though rates in the rest of the UK are higher &#8211; much higher for Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several new incinerators are either in planning or construction which should close the capacity gap within two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Longer term concerns about overcapacity at incinerators led ministers to announce in 2022 that no more would be allowed beyond those already under consideration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friends of the Earth Scotland has long argued that incineration should not be seen as the solution to dealing with waste and that more investment is needed in waste reduction and recycling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaigner Kim Pratt added: &#8220;Rather than allowing these costly and damaging policies to continue, the Scottish government must close the loopholes in its incinerator moratorium and properly invest in the real solution to waste management: reduce, reuse and recycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as the visual impact on communities, landfill is seen as the least environmentally sustainable way of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-244244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}