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  Mmmm interesting
  
  PhilipP - recycling wont save the planet but it will re-use scarce resources and significantly reduced already constrained landfill
  
  BarryW - you manage to recycle paper in the nice big blue bag/black box so what is so difficult about putting your plastics, glass and metal waste in the nice blue lidded bin? Food waste then goes in the little green bin and everything else goes in the other bin - not so hard is it?
  
  Tom - the food waste is all compostable - local authorities use special industrial composters that create compost in roughly 6 weeks this is then sold to farmers or used on community gardens and parks thus reducing the authorities spend on compost or peat substitutes.
  
  BarryW - yes of course we need to tackle this from the producers end as well, using "carrot and stick" approaches to get them to reduce packaging and to also maximise the use of recyclable materials in the packaging that is left. We should also be looking to get white goods manufacturers to develop some form of collective recycling scheme whereby when you get a new TV or fridge or computer or washing machine, they take it away and break it up and recycle it. Unfortunately, without legislation corporates will not do this unless there is money in it for them

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