When John Major signed the Maastricht Agreement and committed the UK to the EEC Landfill Directive, he apparently wasn’t aware of the consequences and left the UK waste management industry with the dilemma of meeting very challenging landfill waste diversion targets by 2020.
Before devolution, Scottish Office ministers relied on professional advice from their staff at the Hazard Waste Inspectorate, and a few members of the Scottish Centre Council of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM): experienced senior waste managers employed by Scottish councils who provided advice without fear or favour.
I’VE been hooked on amateur genealogy for nearly 40 years, after finding a longcase clock in my father’s loft when I was helping him to flit. It was his grandfather’s – he’d been born on Bute but the family had left the island in 1866.
IN 2014, the Scottish Government adopted a document called Towards a Litter-free Scotland. A review in 2019 claimed "significant progress has been made but litter and fly-tipping still poses significant challenges".
