Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses currently identified by SEPA as being non-compliant with waste regulations have been so for more than (a) six months and (b) a year.
A total of six businesses have been identified by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) as being non-compliant for
6 months. These businesses have been given advice and a letter from SEPA setting out how to comply. Further inspections to confirm that they have become compliant with the Waste Regulations are scheduled in November 2017.
No businesses have been identified by SEPA as being non-compliant for 12 months or more.