Your recycling may end up as land fill!
At first the statistics sound great…the UK have increased recycling to two thirds since 1998, beating the target set by the EU.
However this story isn’t all good news, the National Audit Office (NAO) have reported that the UK actually ships over half of the packaging reported abroad to be processed. Leaving the UK Government not knowing whether the packaging reported is being recycled or being processed abroad.
The UK has been exporting waste since 2002, which has increased by six-fold in recent years.
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