Yahoo! UK News Message Boards - Recycling - I think re-cycling is fantastic
Posted on November 8, 2009
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Yahoo! UK News Message Boards - Recycling - I think re-cycling is fantastic
After a very big drive to get all households in this County to recycle household waste…guess what..
The price the authorities where getting..selling paper to China (and shipping it there) has dropped from £70 a ton..to £15.
Result….piles of paper sitting in landfill.
The bottles and plastic have been going to landfill anyway…I know the lorry driver who takes our areas waste there..!
This was NEVER an excercise in “green” recycling…it was a scam to make money.
If ALL Counties in the UK built plasma furnaces (as in Hampshire)…they would be able to safely get rid off virtually ALL waste…AND produce electricity.
IF they really wished to recycle…then,of course, they could build paper processing plants to do so..
These plants however..do create toxic waste of their own.
A little honesty from everyone would at least allow a genuine answer to be found..and more importantly allow people to trust their local authorities/government…but I am not holding my breath.
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