Landfill Directive

DEFINITION: An EU Directive which requires Member States to prevent or reduce as far as possible the negative effects of landfilling on the environment as well as any resultant risk to human health. Under the Landfill Directive, the UK required to send no more than 35% of the volume of bio-municipal waste to landfill than it did during 1995 by 2020. 

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