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Default OT - effectiveness of recycling?

On 21/12/14 10:36, Huge wrote:
On 2014-12-21, Bill Wright wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Its all a green con anyway.

no one uses council compost because its likely contaminated. nearly all
waste ends up as landfill anyway despite what you do to it


The glass gets sent to China for use as hardcore, at a massive cost in
CO2 emissions.


Actually it gets used to make glass fibre insulation.


Some.

How much glass fibre did you use last year?
How many glass bottles did you throw away?

I'll bet the second was an order of magnitude greater than the first


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