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Bill Wright writes:
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.

It was crushed and used here as hardcore, thereby avoiding landfill
tax, but there was some concern that according to EU rules, it probably
should still be subject to landfill tax, even when buried under roads
and pavements as hardcore.

It's never worth recycling back into glass - there's almost no market
for low grade glass made from recycled glass, and it costs more than
making new glass. Even the crushed glass hardcore costs more than real
hardcore, and is only marginally worthwhile due to avoiding landfill
tax.

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Andrew Gabriel
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