Vol. 490 No. 5
31 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 5 March 1998, the proportion of the overall weight of organic waste going to landfill represented by the 100,000 ton target to be diverted by 1999 according to the report, Recycling for Ireland. [10487/98]
The most recent comprehensive data on waste are contained in the National Waste Database Report published by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1996. The report relates to the year 1995 and indicates that, in 1995, some 442,000 tonnes of organic or putrescible waste was generated by households and commercial outlets. Diversion of 100,000 tonnes of organic waste from landfill therefore represents diversion of 22.6 per cent of organic waste from those sources.
The measures being taken to achieve this objective were outlined by me in reply to Question No. 21 of 5 March 1998.
