Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 March 1991.
Mr Dafydd Wigley
Leader and Party President, Plaid Cymru
12:00,
27 March 1991
Does the Minister accept that it is absolute nonsense for waste, including industrial waste, to be transported 200 or 300 miles to be dumped in old quarries, as is proposed in north Wales? It is unacceptable to local communities to have other people's waste dumped on them. It is also unacceptable environmentally and because of the transport costs of carrying waste enormous distances. Surely a better answer can be found.
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