Re: college assignment - need some pointers

In message <eZOdnf0DYIhOz8feRVnysw@xxxxxxxxx>, Phil Bradshaw <philbradshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
John Beardmore wrote: 

Well, it's all around: 'reduce, re-use, recycle', in that order: in the
legislation.

Some people would add 'recover' to the above list.

As in full spectrum recycling?

Don't know. Not heard that term before. 'Recover' is just another layer or option in the hierarchy.


However, find anywhere that does the first two first - best
part of 1000litre of waste storage capacity per household (hereabouts
anyway, plus as many compost bins as you want) encourages the opposite.


Yes.


But... if you don't take it home then you don't have it to recycle. Simple
really.

Recycling first is the wrong message. That's my argument anyway. :-) 

Agreed.

Heh. Try convincing LAs of that. 

Trouble is, it's not really under their control.

They could try appealing to the public to avoid packaging for example, but that either risks contravention of the hygiene regulations, or an increased rate of goods damaged prior to use. How green would that be ? At least some packaging is there for a reason.

I suspect that councils also fear that business might feel that hey were interfering in commercial decisions around presentation of goods for sale, and the advertising implicit in that. And its not as if most shops have much control over the packaging of the goods they sell anyway.

Then there's the packaging regulations, which are sufficiently complex that councils probably won't want to issue advice on packaging in case they get it embarrassingly wrong.

At the end of the day, the business lobby has much more clout with councils than the environmental lobby too.


Cheers, J/.
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John Beardmore
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