Recycling:
not as PC as you think
We drive to the bottle bank with glass,
we wash and sort cans for collection. Local authorities spend a fortune
separating plastic from domestic waste. But where is all this recycling
getting us? As waste prices fall, it becomes less and less economic to
continue.
Professor
Roland Clift of Surrey University says we have to find another way,
starting with the mountain of waste paper. He advises, "don't recycle
so much - burn it". What's more he has done the calculations to prove
the planet would benefit from burning waste paper as a fuel.
Pictures and words variously published
in RSA reports, Planet on Sunday newspaper.
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