I knew it. I tell people this. And they insist it isn’t true.
Whitehall has admitted that waste from recycling bins is being shipped to countries including China, India and Indonesia, where much of it ends up in landfill.
In papers published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ministers concede that what happens to the 12 million tons of ‘green’ waste shipped abroad every year is largely beyond their control.”
‘Most people believe their rubbish is recycled in this country.
Now it turns out there are container ships coming here from China filled with televisions and computers … and going home stacked with containers filled with our recycled rubbish.
That is shameful.’
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Next you need to ask how much paper is made, and how much waste paper is awaiting recycling.
‘Cause we’d never do something as bad as burning the excess, would we?
Its quite amazing how much lying goes on just so some people can feel good about themselves.
Canard? How about this. France does 80% nuclear, is into 4th generation technology and has no problem with storing contamination in space the size of a bedroom, while we can’t do squat except fight about huge cave storage under a Nevada mountain.
Nuclear had been wounded by environmentalists … and killed by shale gas. It is amusing that the USA has met its Kyoto targets because of shale gas.
Of course environmentalists hate both, but pretend to like one or the other while opposing the opposite one. Shale gas and methane hydrates are the next 100 to 200 years of cheap energy.
Shale is the next 200 years. Methane Hydrate is multiples of that if an appropriate extraction process is developed!!
I found out the same thing happens where I work. After 5 years of carefully putting white paper in the recycling bins I found out that the maintenance people throw it all in the same dumpster… too lazy to do it right.