The Other Mike wrote:

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The idea of sorting it all out and then having the council ship it off to a
landfill dump in a third world country is also antisocial.

Back when I first worked in Germany "recycling" consisted of leaving stuff
on the pavement on Wednesday night. The students then rooted through it and
took away what they wanted. Most of it would go, the rest was picked up by
the bin men.

Then they introduced the ****witted recycling now used in the UK. We had to
obsessively sort waste at home and in the office. After a few years it was
announced that "recycling" had been so successful that giant piles of paper
and glass that were banned from landfill were building up because there was
no demand for these as raw materials. The solution was to export it to
Belgium and bury it down mines. Legislation prevented this from being done
in disused German mines. A stupid waste of fuel simply to evade
legislation.

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