McArthur responds to waste consultant comments on GMS

Responding to an interview on BBC Radio Scotland with Alasdair Meldrum, director of waste management consultants Albion Environmental, who said that the SNP government’s delay in rolling out a landfill ban was “fairly inevitable”, and that we need to do more to “encourage the public to use their food waste collection and recycling system better”, estimating that 80% of what goes into a residual bin, which goes to landfill, should not be there and should be recycled, Scottish Liberal Democrat climate crisis spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP said:

“When we learned last month that the ban had collapsed, Scottish Liberal Democrats called on the SNP government to admit that they had yet again failed to do the hard graft to deliver their own policy.

“The SNP had previously planned to ship up to 100 truckloads of waste to England each day.

“Now, it’s also clear that ministers are doing nowhere near enough to encourage people to use their food waste and recycling systems properly.  There has been a lack of information and support about how to make strategies for waste, recycling and reuse a success.

“Scotland deserves better than a SNP government that will make grand promises in one breath and chuck them into landfill in the next.”