What's wrong with the Government's waste strategy

On 21 March 2001, the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee, a multi-party group taxed with looking at, amongst other things, waste issues, released their report, Delivering Sustainable Waste Management. The report delivers a stinging analysis of the inadequacies of the Labour Government's current waste strategy. The following material is excerpted from the Select Committee press release announcing publication of the report.

"At times this was a depressing enquiry to undertake. More often than not, we heard the same excuses for limited progress or inaction that were trotted out the last time we looked at waste in 1998.