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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The issue is that Governments aren't doing anything to influence the private companies and that is where a lot of this is happening.
It won't go away completely of course, but it's currently only "frowned upon" to accept money for introducing lobbyists to ministers, it's not actually illegal, and so it's easy to see how a company that makes billions in profit every year would be able to spend mere millions getting politicians to vote in their interests when it comes to expensive environmental-friendly legislation that will eat into profits.
It might be a bit pointless though. Some plastic is easily recoverable but a lot of it isn't. Our country used to send the stuff that was hard to recover to China but they refused it once they realised the small amount of money to be earned was less than the cost to their health system which was treating the workers doing it.
I don't know where half of it goes now, land fill maybe ?
Not sure what type they make those park benches out of, which are supposedly recycled 'general plastic'... maybe the same sort of thing. That seems quite useful - the plastic is more durable than wood - although it does apparently burn quite well when neds set fire to them.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Whilst I find it frustrating that my local council doesn't attempt to recycle all the stuff that's meant to be recyclable, if you don't start somewhere with recycling, then you're never get going in the first place.
I think central govt needs to step up and define some clear rules.
https://www.terracycle.com/en-GB/brigades/crisppacket
It tends to be schools and suchlike round here, and I believe they get paid per kilo.
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