On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 09:50:47 +0100, "IMM" wrote:

Last week a North London borough said it will fine people who do not
re-cycle.

Any references to this?

On TV an expert was arguing the point that re-cycling as a waste
of time and uneconomical. He said that burning the waste is the best option
all around: landfill, reduces fossil fuel usage, local heating of houses,
etc, and that emissions are well within the regs pointing to the defra web
site. His argument was well reasoned.

I would have thought recycling glass bottles and aluminium cans saves
more energy than created by incinerating them, even recycling paper is
likely to give a net energy saving. Also it's hard to see how
incinerating something can create less landfill than recycling it,
which creates no landfill at all. Did the 'experts' well reasoned
argument cover all this....?

cheers,
Pete.