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A major legal ruling threatens to throw Scotland and the rest of the UK's contaminated land strategy into doubt, according to a report released in Scotland this week. It states that the European Court of Justice suggests all forms of contaminated soil should now be officially classified as waste. While the ruling should ensure that contaminated land is properly cleaned up, it puts in doubt some of the practices currently applied. Scotland has an estimated 3,580 hectares of contaminated land and projects involving any of these sites might be affected.