"Fredxx" wrote in message
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On 25/03/2018 11:10, NY wrote:

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It is fine to encourage people to recycle more, but all households
generate a certain amount of waste on average, and it all needs to be
removed - whether in the normal bin or the recycling bin. There seems to
be a school of thought that we should magically produce less waste, even
of the recyclable type.

If it modifies your behaviour to reduce waste and recyclable matter, it
all sounds a good thing.

I'm all for encouraging people to recycle rather than landfill, by carrot
rather than stick by making it easy to recycle rather than difficult/costly
to landfill. But expecting people to reduce the *total* amount of waste is
ludicrous. If something comes boxed, you have to get rid of the box - and
you don't have the option of saying "supply this item in clean, pristine,
undamaged condition but with less packaging" - the packaging is the means of
making sure the item is clean/undamaged.