The Nationalist Party wants parliament's environment committee to discuss the situation at civic amenity sites, saying they were now looking more like junkyards. 

In a statement, the PN said that waste electrical and electronic (WEEE) schemes administered by the Environment and Resources Authority are causing huge pile-ups due to the backlog in the collection of this waste (white goods, television sets, water heaters, computers and air-conditioning units) for recycling abroad.

In a statement in the afternoon, the PN said these sites had become more akin to junkyards.

Editorial: Overflowing civic amenity sites

These sites, the party pointed out, were the responsibility of Environment Minister Josè Herrera, who was also responsible for the Environment and Resources Authority and Wasteserv. Both these entities were not doing anything about the situation, which was going from bad to worse.

It would have been better for the minister, rather than wasting €700,000 on television adverts in 2018 to say how well the environment was doing, had really worked in the sector and not given wasteful consultancies to Nexia BT, the PN said.