From: Ian
Category: Miscellaneous
Date: 24 Sep 2009
Time: 17:01:09 +0200
Remote Name: 86.140.161.31
In yet more reports, our brave lads and lasses of the Environment Agency are said to be working hard to examine the 'crime scene' that is those returned containers of waste from Brazil.
Good for them!
But when will someone ask, as I do, why the waste left these shores when repeatedly the EA claim that their systems are so robust you cannot sneeze without them knowing what happens to the waste generated. That's what the consignment note and all those fees are for, or are we being duped?
Value for money? Probably not.
see
http://www.politicsandcurrentaffairs.co.uk/Forum/peak-oil-economics-environment/75377-how-cargo-rubbish-became.html
see
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/how-a-cargo-of-rubbish-became-a-crime-scene-that-shames-britain-1791706.html
see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/sep/21/global-fly-tipping-toxic-waste
see
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6845007.ece
see also http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=53470§ion=legislation in which the EA are quoted to be aiming at planning a more proactive to prevent a repeat of this Brazilian fiasco.
Some might reasonably ask for a refund for the costs so far, for the failure to be proactive until this case caused them to wake from their slumbers. Perhaps too much time spent telling us how good and how powerful they are, and not enough effort spent in actually dealing with these problems at source.