Deputy calls for caution over Crabbé contaminated waste

Deputy calls for caution over Crabbé contaminated waste

He believes that there are better ways to deal with the mountains of compost than those suggested to date.’We must bring to bear a level of scrutiny that guarantees the minimum costs and the maximum benefits,’ he said.Last year the Agriculture and Fisheries Committee declared that the polluted compost contained negligible levels of arsenic and other trace elements and announced that it favoured ploughing the mulch into the ground.

It said that this could be done once the source of the arsenic, the CCA preservative-treated wood chippings, had been sieved out.However, the Health and Social Services Committee believe that there would be a ‘small, unquantifiable, but nonetheless a clear and real risk’ to public health if the compost is ploughed in.

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