lördag 29 juli 2006

Re-use is better than recycling

Broken glass on Brighton  beach

Brighton's sea front cleaning team do a wonderful job against all the odds, but this should not be happening. If food and drink containers were subject to a heavy tax if they were not re-usable, then people would collect them and take them back to the shop to get their deposit, if for no other reason than to buy more beer.

This is one for the EU - have the bottle manufacturers knobbled the Brussels bureaucrats so they are not going to do anything about it?

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