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Scots waste to trave1100 miles

29th August 2002
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• A Scottish waste management company has been awarded a controversial £12.7m contract by Highland Council to dispose of the area's domestic waste-100 miles away from the Council's Inverness base.

Stoneyhill Waste Management will take the waste in antics down the A96 to its Peterhead site in Aberdeenshire. The 200mile round trip will require 16 journeys a day and will dump an estimated 80,000 tonnes of municipal waste annually.

The three-year contract begins in April; d was awarded as a result of the closure of a nearby landfill site by the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency.

However, the news is not welcomed by MSP Mary Scanlon. "It's a crisis measure," she says. "Highland council has procrastinated for many years. They were fully aware of the limits of the landfill site for at least a decade."

Scanlon says the A96 is one of the most dangerous roads in Scotland as it is and has an appalling accident record. She believes the prospect of an extra 16 lorries a day full of domestic waste on the already congested route is of serious environmental concern.

But Highland councillor Bill Fulton says it should be put into perspective: "There will be 16 vehicle movements a day. That's a tiny fraction of the existing traffic," he says. 'People have concerns with another bus or car getting on the road-16 is not a lot."

He adds that the council looked closely at rail and sea options, but from a physical and financial point of view these were just not possible.


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