Written answers
Tuesday, 16 May 2006
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
9:00 pm
Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 556: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide data for the amount of greenhouse gas emissions arising on a lifecycle basis from landfilling versus the mass-burn incineration of municipal waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18083/06]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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In July 2001, the European Commission published a study of Waste Management Options and Climate Change. The full report can be accessed at http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/waste/ studies/climate
The life cycle of products up to the point of disposal is the same for landfilling and incineration, and is not relevant to a decision between the two disposal options.
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