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Why Recycle?
On October 30th 2007
regulations came into force requiring anyone who produces waste to
pre-treat it before sending it to landfill. This means that many
contractors will charge an additional fee to pre-treat your waste,
unless you do it yourself. Separating some of your general
waste for reuse or recycling is an acceptable form of
pre-treatment and therefore you will not need to pay for this
service from your waste contractor.
Another financial factor
to take into account is the rising cost of landfill tax. The UK
dumps more household waste into landfill than any other EU state
and at the current rate, we’ll run out of landfill space by 2016.
So the government is raising Landfill Tax over the next few years
to encourage us to recycle more. Since 2007, Landfill Tax has risen
by £8 per tonne per year, and in 2010 will have reached £48 per
tonne. (Twice the 2007 rate).
When it comes to
environmental issues, there are plenty of good reasons to get
involved with recycling too. The real cost of waste has been
likened to an iceberg. The tip of the iceberg (the only bit that we
see) is the rubbish that we throw away; however the real cost of
waste is seen below the surface when we look at the energy used to
extract the raw materials, ship them to a factory where they are
turned into products and then shipped around the world to ports,
depots, shops and finally our businesses where we use the goods
before throwing them away.
As waste decomposes in
landfill it does so under anaerobic conditions which causes methane
gas to be produced. Methane is a 'greenhouse gas' and is 24 times
more powerful than carbon dioxide in terms of global
warming.
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