Green waste 'a waste of time' says top anti-EU campaigner

Britannist · 04-03-2007, 01:07 PM

Green waste bags are quite often totally useless writes Christopher Booker in today's Sunday Telegraph:

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...04/nbook04.xml

mkpdavies · 04-03-2007, 01:14 PM

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We then saw what really happens. In Mendip the film showed 630 tons of food waste, composted at £50 a ton, being tipped into a giant rubbish dump. In Gloucester, where the council website boasted of how compost was "spread on local farmland", the company responsible made no bones of the fact that the compost never leaves the landfill site. In Bristol, we followed a 20-ton truck, laden with food waste, which takes it on a 110 mile journey to a composting site in Poole, Dorset, for some purpose unrevealed.

We then returned to the members of the public, expressing shock as they learned what actually happens to the waste they dutifully sort into the right bins for "recycling". We saw the councillors trying to put a good face on the deception: the one from Gloucester cheerfully admitting that, to the public, his council's scheme was just "a comfort zone" - "They think it is being recycled, and it is, but maybe not quite in the way they thought."

I have been talking about the recycling con for years and not just food.

I have noticed a lot of people now agree with me now, rather than looking at me like I am a nutter in my area. There is only so much time you can pull the wool over peoples eyes.

Besoeker · 04-03-2007, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by mkpdavies

I have been talking about the recycling con for years and not just food.

The artice deals specifically with how food waste was dealt with is specific cases. Maybe that is typical of how it is dealt with generally, and maybe not. I don't think there is enough information to draw a general conclusion one way or the other.

I do know that a lot of recycled paper is used in UK. The chances are that the newspaper you read is printed on newsprint made from paper that has been recycled a number of times already.
Fast food bags are mostly made from recycled paper.

In fact most grades of paper from tissue to corrugating medium comprise, to a large extent, of recycled product.

When we, UK, had a steel industry, it was similar. Cars via car fragmentation plants were major suppliers of material for steel mills.

Recycling of materials is a fact of life and has been going on for many years.

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