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"Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, will admit that litter 'remains at persistently high levels' and that recycling in stations, shopping malls and stadiums is 'nowhere near as easy' as in the home. About 40 per cent of household rubbish is recycled today, up from 11 per cent in 2000/01.
"The review will warn that a lack of outdoor recycling schemes could undermine the coalition's ambition for a 'zero waste' economy where nothing is sent to landfill.
We say: There is nothing 'zero waste' about incineration of domestic waste. This is 'green-wash', alongside 'Energy from Waste' processes that produce ash, and thereby:
- destroy resources
- suppress higher reuse and recycling targets
- avoid waste reduction from new manufacturing standards that consider product end-of-use.
See the GAIA web site, a loose, world-wide campaign, involving:
- mobilizing grassroots action against the spread of incinerators and other polluting, end-of-pipe waste technologies.
- building the movement for environmental justice, local green economies, and creative zero waste solutions.
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