{"id":313232,"date":"2025-08-03T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313232\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:40:10","slug":"asbestos-more-than-280-dumping-incidents-in-ni-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313232\/","title":{"rendered":"Asbestos: More than 280 dumping incidents in NI since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2022 MPs called for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-61168335\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40-year deadline for all asbestos to be removed from public and commercial buildings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alan Lewis, a director at G&amp;L consultancy in Northern Ireland, a company in Northern Ireland that provides asbestos management and removal services, said a lot of time and effort went into making asbestos removal safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;[We use] full enclosure air locks, negative pressure units, to keep the fibres within the area you&#8217;re working in and drawing them out safely,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All asbestos waste needs to be packaged, labelled, taken from site and taken to the appropriate hazard waste disposal site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reacting to the asbestos dumping figures he said: &#8220;Those numbers are high and I understand why people are concerned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When it comes to illegal dumping, you could have situations where asbestos is being transported and not contained properly, broken up on transit and dumped on the side of the road.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2022 MPs called for a 40-year deadline for all asbestos to be removed from public and commercial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-313232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114962053491880796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}