Truckloads of Scotland’s rubbish will be exported to England, say experts

The BBC’s statement will be moved to England with a regular storage ban at the end of the year.

The Scottish government prohibits the burial of “Black Bag” waste in a regular storage area of ​​December 31, but now acknowledges that there is not enough burning furnace to meet extra demand.

The prohibition covering biologically disintegrated municipal waste (BMW) will be valid for almost all domestic and commercial waste.

Scottish ministers said that any waste of waste should be seen only as a “short -term solution”.

The ban on the beginning was to be in force until 2021, but Covid was postponed because of concern that businesses were not ready.

Uncoltered black bags will see a range of materials prohibited from storage space, including municipal waste, wood, textiles, paper and food.

This biologically fragmented waste is broken down to produce methane with a greenhouse gas that is about 28 times stronger than carbon dioxide.

In regular storage areas, some inert materials such as ash and building rubble will be allowed from burning furnaces.

The Scottish government wants to stop the recycling rates of traditional black bag wastes and stop being buried on the ground using more energy burning furnaces than the waste.

However, four years after the original plan date, environmental consultants concluded that hundreds of thousands of tons of garbage were still home.

Already in burning ovens – or waste from waste – more waste is sent, but it will not be enough until the deadline of December 31.

The zero waste leaves a “capacity gap”, estimated to be 600,000 tons in the first year of the ban by Scotland.

Some councils and commercial waste companies are approaching garbage transport operators in the UK to negotiate “bridge contracts”.

Since most burning furnaces have very little backup capacity, this means that Scotland’s extreme wastes are regularly filled in the UK.

The British government also wants to eliminate biologically disintegrated waste from storage and announced a consultation earlier this year, but there is currently no policy in the south of the border.

David Balmer, a waste expert from ERS improvement, said to the description program: “You are looking at the equivalent of at least 80 to 100 trucks a week to take this material to a facility abroad or abroad.”

And there are concerns that logistics may not be fully reached.

“We probably didn’t get trucks and vehicles to move it,” the Director of Waste Management Alasdair Meldrum said, “We probably didn’t get trucks and vehicles to move it. He said.

“You have the environmental impact of all these transportation, ridiculous, but people who invest in burning furnaces, ‘We have invested all this money because of the ban.’

“So, we’re stuck in a really hard place.”

Although the reason for the ban is to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas from regular storage areas, short -term effect will increase in emissions caused by the heavy vehicle fleet, which causes waste to areas in Kingdom, Northumberland or potentially in Manchester areas.

The long -term strategy was to reduce the amount produced by the “black bag” waste households, so it would have to be burned less.

However, local recycling rates are barely bombed in ten years.

In 2013, Scottish Homes recycled 41.6% of his wastes, but until 2023, this figure rose to 43.5% of less than 2 percent.

The figures for the UK and Northern Ireland are a bit better, but a large 64.7%for Wales.

There are currently eight operational burning furnaces in Scotland.

Until 2022, there was a hurry to build more, but the Scottish government was afraid that the brakes on development would be over capacity.

Now the only additional ones to be built have already entered the planning process.

Although the burning furnaces are still responsible for a significant amount of greenhouse gas, experts say they are about third environmental damage to the methane caused by rotting materials in regular storage areas.

As an additional benefit, they also produce some electricity, and some of them warm up the neighboring houses and buildings hot.

The Colin Church, which presides an independent examination in Scotland, believes that the transition to the burning ovens is the right choice.

“The best thing we can do with waste with our existing technology levels, and therefore it is a good idea to get some energy with our existing technology levels.”

Environmental groups are concerned that contracts that guarantee the wastes given to the burning furnaces by councils will prevent local authorities from investing in further recycling.

Kim Pratt of World Friends Scotland described the existing waste management system as broken.

He said: “In Scotland, burning out of control.

“There are burning furnaces built in Falkirk in Aberdeen, and there is one to be built in North Ayrashire this year.

“All these burning furnaces have locally opposing communities.”

The waste campaign Laura Young said: “One of the concerns, expensive facilities – running expensive, big contracts – and means we need to use them.

“We built them, so we need to use them.”

The Scottish government points to a series of attempts that it has initiated to fight household waste in recent years and to create a more “circular” economy in which the material has been used over and over again.

These include a deposit return plan planned for disposable Vapes, disposable glasses and boxes and boxes and plastic bottles.

He said that the “majority of the councils” took alternative measures in front of the entry into force of the regular storage ban, but “they will work closely with local authorities and industry organs to monitor and review the relevant problems that may arise as a ban on prohibition.”

The Scottish government added: “Any waste of waste should be seen as a short -term solution.”