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General overview of waste
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Waste is an environmental concern for several reasons. The most immediately pressing in the UK is perhaps the problem of what to do with it all. Most of the waste disposed of here goes into holes in the ground - landfill sites.
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What you can do about it |
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The first step to managing your waste is to learn more about it. Find out where waste is being created, and what you can do to reduce volumes. See if there's anything you can re-use - it's not unusual for companies to be paying to throw away old boxes from incoming goods, and buying new ones just to move work in progress around. Find out what you are throwing away and what could be recycled.
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Recycling makes sense |
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By John Haines, J & G Environmental Ltd.
An inevitable consequence of the print production process is that millions of tons of waste have to be disposed of every year. In the not too distant past much of this waste disappeared into hard-pressed landfill sites with the result that huge volumes of re-useable by-products, many of them hazardous, were discarded with possible adverse effects on the environment.
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