My clever scientist uncle tells me we can be reasonably sure that it is bad for the environment to recyle most things, especially glass bottles and alumiinium cans, since it takes more energy to recyle them than make them from scratch.
Landfill is no bad thing. Burry the waste and in a couple of years it'll be a golf course and soon it'll be fine land again.
Plastic bottles are almost certainly worth recylcing as they take little energy to turn back into plastic bottles again and they are hard to dispose of otherwise.
The economic arguments are a different matter.
In the London Borough of Barnet, where I live, the tyranical council have made recycling (ie damaging the environment) compulsary and I think they threaten us with fines if we don't do it.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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