Vol. 473 No. 4
68 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment if he will promote the composting of garden and vegetable waste as recommended to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Sustainable Development; and, if so, when regulations will be drawn up to require composting rather than landfill of such putrescible waste. [1573/97]
It is stated objective of national recycling policy to divert some 100,000 tonnes of organic waste away from landfill by means of composting by 1999. The new scheme of waste recycling grants accordingly encourages the development of composting systems, and a number of local authority proposals on these lines were approved by me in 1996, including a major one for Limerick city. This policy of encouraging composting arrangements will be continued. Consideration will be given at a later stage to the feasibility of supplementing the policy with a regulatory requirement on composting.
