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Default OT - effectiveness of recycling?

Andrew Gabriel posted
In article ,
Bill Wright writes:
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.


What's bad about putting it into landfill anyway? (I mean from the
Eurocrats' POV - obviously it's bad from our POV because the Eurocrats
tax it!)

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Les