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Whether we agree on the whys and the wherefores, the decision to encourage recycling was made and agreed centrally, but rather than be told from Brussels how everything should be done, each member state was 'encouraged', through such things as the landfill directive, to sort themselves out. This we have singularly failed to do. And it is your fault Philip, really it could be called Philip's Folly.
I don't quite mean that you and you alone are to blame, but the same logic you apply is the logic applied by our successive Governments...Let's not bother/all we need do is avoid the surcharge/make it sound good at all costs etc. etc.
We should by this time not be buying Grey, White and Black goods, we should be leasing them. Leasing them either from the manufacturer via the retailer or from the retailer direct. We should be returning them as we once did milk-bottles. This would force the industry and Government to tackle recycling old into new. Instead, and here your name come up again, our prime wish is for this cup to pass from us. To shun a problem that definitely has our name upon it and pass it along to Asia, Africa or China, and at the same time spinning the line that it's the EU what made me do it. The new 'Road Rage' of the traffic in trade.