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@kimjongl | 24 June 19 | |
@ eyesore - 24.06.19 - 05:56am Isn't it more of a fact than a view? Man maybe indeed capable of wiping out all life as we know it, but destroy the planet itself? No that's not within our capability. Not yet Yes I agree. |
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@budgiesmuggler | 24 June 19 | |
@ sephiroth - 22.06.19 - 10:44am ..or supermarkets. Will that be even possible, futuristically speaking? I'm talking totally green, no plastics, no heavy duty foil, all other forms of harmful packaging.. Unnecessary waste been eliminated. Is this even feasible? Completely possible. Doable. Easy peasy. But not at a price any consumer is willing to pay. |
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@recurve16 | 25 June 19 | |
Biffa has been convicted of breaking the law by sending household rubbish to China that was labelled as waste paper. Instead, the bundles included nappies, sanitary towels and condoms,according to the Environment Agency,which prosecuted the waste giant. The waste management firm was found guilty in a three-week jury trial at London's Wood Green Crown Court. Biffa said it strongly contested the decision and was considering making an appeal. But the Environment Agency said jurors did not accept Biffa's claim that the contaminated bundles were made up of waste paper. Biffa argued that its containers were regularly inspected by Chinese customs agents. It also said the firms buying the waste often inspected containers before they were shipped to make sure they contained 98.5 paper, which is the industry standard. |
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@recurve16 | 25 June 19 | |
The Environment Agency said it found everything from women's underwear and plastic bottles to metal pipes in a number of 25-tonne containers that were bound for China. Glass, plastics, electrical items and metal were also found inside seven of the containers that the agency inspected at the port of Felixstowe in Suffolk. Instead of waste paper, investigators discovered diverse discarded debris such as shoes, plastic bags, an umbrella, socks, hand towels, unused condoms, video tape, toiletries and electric cable, the Environment Agency said. The nappies and sanitary towels gave off a pungent 'vomit-like' smell when inspected by Environment Agency officers. But Biffa said it supplied vital raw material to China to be recycled in an environmentally sound way. It said the material met international standards and blamed the Environment Agency for failing to lay out what level of contamination it would consider acceptable. |
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@recurve16 | 27 June 19 | |
Hundreds of thousands of tons of rubbish carefully sorted by residents for recycling is being sent to landfill or burned Government data has revealed up to half of recyclable waste is not being recycled in some parts of England, despite households taking the time to sort their rubbish into a variety of different coloured bins. A company used by four London councils was found to be sending plastics and paper materials to be burned. Environmental campaigners have warned that the public would be horrified to realise their carefully recycled waste was ending up in incineration plants. Julian Kirby, from Friends of the Earth, said: People would understandably be appalled if the materials they have diligently gathered together for recycling actually ended up being incinerated. Workers at WRWA were seen putting unopened bags of recycled waste in with general waste. This was instead of pre-sorting the conveyer belt of waste by removing items such as nappies and food, which could contaminate the recyclable materials. The workers are asked to remove 35 pieces of contaminating material a minute, leading to questions as to whether they are too rushed to sort the waste correctly... |
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@mikeymk | 27 June 19 | |
This has been going on since day one. Efforts to force people to recycle have fought against public wisdom on the subject of leakage into landfill anyway ''So why bother?'' Thing is, recyclers are a business, bundles have to be clean, people don't help by not washing or sorting their scrap properly - anything that looks time consuming to sort just gets land-filled. And always has done. |
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@crimson | 27 June 19 | |
My poor baby, she tells me every day about the marine animals that suffer due to plastic pollution. Like it gets me too, but it kills her. She is only 10 years old.
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@sisfreak2017 | 27 June 19 | |
Is burning it cleanly to generate electricity environmentally friendly? |
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