Banning food, textiles, wood and plastic from landfill could save resources worth £2.5bn a year and help companies avoid £1bn of landfill costs, think-tank Green Alliance will say today.
New research by the group shows that policies preventing cars and electronics being dumped in landfill have improved recycling rates significantly and advocates extending these regulations.
It states that the UK recovered around a quarter of unwanted mobile phones in 2010 and that this figure is set to rise to 80 per cent by the end of the decade, keeping £13m of value in the UK economy per year, as a result of the EU’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive. By contrast, in the US where no such regulations exist, 92 per cent of mobile phones ended up in landfill.
Click here to read the full story.
