Shipping Waste 10,000 Miles For Recycling Still Better Than Landfilling

uk recycling centre photo
photo: Lisa via flickr

Here’s a quick one via The Guardian which at first certainly counter-intuitive but upon examination isn’t and really shows how important recycling is.

A new report from the Waste Resources Action Programme says that shipping newspapers and plastic bottles the 10,000 miles from the UK to China actually prevents more carbon emissions that landfilling the waste in Britain and manufacturing new products.
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