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It's an expanding wasteline

20th June 1996, Page 22
20th June 1996
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Torbay has hosted its last annual Institute of Wastes Management exhibition and conference—next year the event shifts to Silverstone. Regular exhibitors gave the move the thumbs down as the show signed off with a bumper 335 exhibitors,700 conference delegates and around 3,200 visitors enjoying exhibits and sunshine alike.

The show highlighted the international dilemma of whether to bury or burn waste, with incinerators as scarce as hens teeth.

Devon's landfill sites are filling at an alarming rate and as it inters 80% of its waste, October's landfill tax looks like trebling the cost of disposal. Waste still needs to be moved, either to an incinerator or a landfill site, and the industry showed that it has the right tools for the job.

number of chassis manufacturers shared , ,—.

stands, and costs, with bodybuilders, but this trend did not affect the quantity or quality of equipment on display for municipal operators.

Leyland Daf brought its 45 Series revisited; other debutantes included MAN and Seddon Atkinson 14-tonners; Volvo weighed in with a new 15-tonner. Winter trucks always blossom in Summer and lveco's Spanish-built EuroTrakker 6x6 duly emerged in LIM guise, as did Foden's 6x6 3325 with a SteyriSisu transmission extension. Fly tippers and squatters regularly give Traffic Commissioners's heartache—Tameside showed how to handle their leavings with a vehicle dedicated to clearing up after them. Bryan Jarvis reports.

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