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Norway moves to end all organic waste dumping

ENDS Europe
Friday 11 June 2004

Norway's pollution control authority (SFT) has proposed a total ban on the dumping of biodegradable waste by 2009. The proposal goes far beyond requirements in the 1999 EU landfill directive (which applies to Norway even though it is not an EU member), for a 65% reduction from 1995 volumes by 2016.

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