Britain should follow China’s example on renewables,writes Feargal Dalton, and Ian Paul urges the UK to step up to the recycling challenge. Neil Sinclair wants a fossil fuel-free February, and while Grace Hewson wants a plastic-free newspaperIn view of the appalling revelations that the UK has been shipping vast quantities of plastic to China for many years (Editorial,8 January), would it not be a agreeable view to contain the UK lead once more in something and contain genuine recycling plants set up here in the country? I mean genuine plants to process plastic from the UK and the rest of Europe, and not just depots for onward reselling as seems to contain been the case. There are initiatives to use such waste plastic in innovative ways. For example there is a small startup company in Scotland,MacRebur, developing ways to reduce the amount of toxic bitumen in asphalt by substituting a proportion of waste plastic into the mix. Surely we should urge government and private industry to build and develop plants to deal with the problem now, or before we are knee-deep in bottles?
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Source: theguardian.com