GB News host Andrew Pierce has expressed his outrage at the SNP's plan to dump truckloads of landfill waste in England, declaring "we don't want your rubbish!"
Following a landfill ban in Scotland, the SNP are set to send up to 100 truckloads of waste a day, amounting to around 600,000 tonnes of rubbish being dumped in the first year.
Discussing the plans on GB News, Britain's Newsroom host Andrew Pierce hit out at the SNP, telling MSP Douglas Lumsden to "keep the rubbish in Scotland".
Lumsden was equally furious at the plans, telling the People's Channel: "This is a farcical story, and it's typical of the SNP's crazy approach to net zero.
Andrew Pierce hit out at SNP plans to dump up to '100 truck loads' a day of rubbish in Britain
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"Just as they want to stop producing oil and gas in Scotland and continue to import it from elsewhere, the SNP are now planning to ban landfills in Scotland while sending all the rubbish south of the border."
Noting the environmental impact of the trucks being used to send the waste to England, Lumsden added: "It just is a crazy thing to do that we're going to put all this trash on diesel lorries and move it elsewhere."
Andrew then interjected, stating: "So it's causing pollution as well because 100 lorries a day, every day are belching out all those fumes. It's incoherent!"
Lumsden responded: "It just completely doesn't make sense, and this is all down to SNP's incompetence.
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Some '80 and 100 trucks minimum' will need to be running seven days a weekGETTY"They announced this ban was meant to be in place in 2021, they had to delay it. But the infrastructure is still not there at all. The SNP often talk about boosting exports, I just didn't think it was going to be exporting rubbish that they had in mind. It is absolutely unbelievable."
Questioned by host Bev Turner on "who will make money of this farce," Lumsden suggested that the waste companies will be "rubbing their hands" at the prospect of accepting tonnes of waste from Scotland.
Lumsden told GB News: "I guess it'll be waste companies south of the border, they'll be rubbing their hands that they are accepting all this rubbish from Scotland.
"And could you imagine the SNP's outrage if it was the other way around, if rubbish was coming from England up to Scotland? All the SNP flag waving zealots would be there at the border, blocking all these trucks. It is unbelievable what is happening."
Lumsden told GB News that the plan is 'unbelievable'
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Explaining the reasoning for the ban in Scotland, Bev said that the Government are blaming "methane gasses" for the decision.
Bev said: "This is because of methane, so the black bin bags full of household rubbish will decompose and they will create methane, which the SNP say is a very dangerous greenhouse gas.
"Surely there is no forward planning here, is there?"
Lumsden concluded: "Introducing the landfill ban was fine, but you have to have the infrastructure there to to deal with it in other ways. There was meant to be energy from waste plants built to cope with all this rubbish, but they have been years late, and so this is completely down to the SNP's bad planning."
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