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Subject: Environmentally friendly convenience stores

recurve16 25.06.19 - 11:07am
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 27.06.19 - 05:04am
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 27.06.19 - 07:24am
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. * +

crimson 27.06.19 - 11:28am
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. * +

sisfreak2017 27.06.19 - 01:29pm
Is burning it cleanly to generate electricity environmentally friendly?
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