Piggybacking’ landfill disposal held to be legal
The High Court has held that under UK and European law it is legally permissible to grant a new permit for the disposal of waste on sites overlapping a closed landfill. With growing pressure to find suitable sites, so-called ‘piggybacking’ applications have become more prevalent, but until now the Environment Agency had always refused applications.
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