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Article: A burning question Building more incinerators isn't the answer to our rubbish mountain. There are other ways
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2001
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IF YOU wonder why your kitchen pedal bin is always full, it's
because each one of us in Greater London creates nearly half a ton of
rubbish every year. That's around 3.5 million tons for the whole
capital, and some estimates predict this garbage mountain could
double by 2020.
Right now, we don't win any environmental prizes: we recycle just
nine per cent of our rubbish. But local councils are on a drive to
make us more rubbish-conscious. We need to dramatically boost
recycling, because there'll only be one main alternative for waste
disposal in the future: incinerators.
And, as recent protests show, few Londoners want an incinerator on
their doorstep.
Most of London's waste is buried in ...