Old news now I know but as its green bin weekend I've been thinking about one of the implications of Covanta. The bid to cut landfill has actually boosted recycling and a lot of people go to a lot of trouble to separate out their plastics, paper etc from food and other waste and this all gets reused in some way or another. Its only Friday and our green bin's stuffed but there was hardly anything in the residual bin the previous Monday (thanks to the brown waste food bin and our compost bin outside plus the green stuff).
But Covanta can't really make a profit unless it burns everything. So that whole culture of careful reuse is all going to be dumped.
Of course there are other objections to Covanta like hundreds of lorries a day.
But Covanta can't really make a profit unless it burns everything. So that whole culture of careful reuse is all going to be dumped.
Of course there are other objections to Covanta like hundreds of lorries a day.
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