UK: Rubbish news

There is a lot of rubbish in the news, most of it coming from the Daily Mail.

Headlines screaming “outrageous fortnightly pick-ups,” forget to tell us that actually it’s still weekly but the types of bins emptied, alternate each week.

Critics stating that alternate collections won’t increase recycling back up their argument with the whopping 4% of LGAs that have high recycling and weekly pick-ups.

But the biggest distortion is that this poorly researched and reactionary reporting completely misses the point.

The important thing about alternate collections is that it makes us think about when and what we throw away. So we start to reduce our rubbish, reuse our rubbish and as a last resort recycle it.

Today’s issue of the Mail is laughably hypocritical. On one page they want us to keep weekly collections, maintaining a vehicle for our throw away culture, on the other page they're campaigning against too much packaging.

Umm, if it’s harder to throw away, than we won’t buy products with excess packaging, and the retailers will stop stocking them.

PI wonders if the Mail is printed on mahogany paper?

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Read this, then you decide.

Read the Guardian article