Philobiblon

Good piece in the Sunday Times today about Britain’s hideous record on waste – particularly silly when you think what a small island we live on.

According to the LGA, the average British household produces half a ton of rubbish a year. In total, we send 7m tons more rubbish to landfill than any other country in Europe. One country in particular puts us to shame: Germany has 25% more people but produces less than half as much trash.
And now we’re running out of space to bury it all. Within nine years there’ll be no landfill sites left.

It is often claimed that environmental measures are “too hard”, “impractical”, “uneconomic”, but on this subject at least it is clear it is simply a matter of political will.