LGOIMA Request Details: LG1918

Date received: 21/04/2020

Requested information: Industrial Plastic Waste to Landfill

Status: Complete

Date responded: 14/05/2020

Response:

1/ Quantities of industrial plastic waste to landfill within your jurisdiction.

We collected 46.01 tonnes of plastics from our transfer stations in the last financial year, Our contract provider estimates about 30% of this is non-recyclable and disposed of to landfill

2/ Specifically, quantities of Motor Vehicle plastic components waste to landfill.

We do not separate or record  Motor vehicle plastics from our recycling our provider is not aware of any contamination of our recycling with Motor Vehicle plastics

3/ The quantities of any known industrial plastic waste, motor vehicle plastic storage and/or related plastic mountain, within your jurisdiction.

We are not aware of any plastics mountains within the MDC district and do not have any data on industrial/motor vehicle plastics

4/ The landfill/s used to dispose of any of these plastics generated within your jurisdiction.

Our local landfill is Bonny Glen, North of Marton