Notes: [1] Also includes some unidentified inactive industrial waste
[2] From 1st October 1999 excludes waste used to restore landfill sites or backfill quarries
[2] From 1st October 1999 excludes waste used to restore landfill sites or backfill quarries
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1970 |
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1990 |
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1999 |
Coverage: United Kingdom
Source: HM C&E
- Landfill Tax was introduced in October 1996 and since then the amount of construction and demolition waste disposed to landfill has fallen considerably.
- In the third quarter of 2003 around 3.3 million tonnes of construction, demolition and other inert waste was sent to landfill - about a third less than in the final quarter of 1999 (when changes were made to the coverage of the tax).