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? this is fascinating.</font></font></font></span></div>
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<p><br><span style='font-weight:bold'><font face="Tahoma"><font size=-1><b>From:</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'></b>McGahuey,
Mike</font></font></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
<br><span style='font-weight:bold'><font face="Tahoma"><font size=-1><b>Sent:</span></b>
Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:18 PM</font></font>
<br><span style='font-weight:bold'><font face="Tahoma"><font size=-1><b>To:</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'></b>Mullally,
Kevin</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>White,
Pamela</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>; Richard
Stanley; </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Dembele,
Mamadou A.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>; </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>McCarthy,
Dennis</font></font></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<br><span style='font-weight:bold'><font face="Tahoma"><font size=-1><b>Subject:</span></b>
[Fwd: WTimes: "Time to throw out 'myth' of recycling"]</font></font></span>
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comments about incinerating plastics. </font></font></span>
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"Time to throw out 'myth' of recycling"</font></font></span></div>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><u><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000FF"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20030304-94642203.htm">http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20030304-94642203.htm</a></font></font></font></u></span>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><span style='font-size:
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4, 2003</font></font></span>
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Time to throw out 'myth' of</font></font></span>
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recycling</font></font></span>
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By David Harrison</font></font></span>
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LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH</font></font></span>
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LONDON - Throw away the green and blue bags and</font></font></span>
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forget those trips to return bottles - recycling household</font></font></span>
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waste is a load of, well, rubbish, say leading environmentalists</font></font></span>
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and waste campaigners.</font></font></span>
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In a reversal of decades-old</font></font></span>
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wisdom, they argue that burning</font></font></span>
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cardboard, plastics and food</font></font></span>
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leftovers is better for the</font></font></span>
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environment and the economy than</font></font></span>
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recycling.</font></font></span>
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They dismiss household trash</font></font></span>
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separation - a practice</font></font></span>
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encouraged by the green lobby -</font></font></span>
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as a waste of time and money.</font></font></span>
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The assertions, likely to horrify</font></font></span>
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many environmentalists, are made</font></font></span>
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by five campaigners from Sweden,</font></font></span>
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a country renowned for its concern</font></font></span>
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for the environment and advanced approach to waste.</font></font></span>
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They include Valfrid Paulsson, a former director-general</font></font></span>
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of the government's environmental protection agency; Soren</font></font></span>
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Norrby, the former campaign manager for Keep Sweden</font></font></span>
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Tidy, and the former managing directors of three</font></font></span>
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waste-collection companies.</font></font></span>
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The Swedes' views are shared by many British local</font></font></span>
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authorities, who have drawn up plans to build up to 50</font></font></span>
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incinerators in an attempt to tackle a growing waste mountain</font></font></span>
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and cut the amount of garbage going to landfills.</font></font></span>
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"For years, recycling has been held up as the best way to</font></font></span>
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deal with waste. It's time that myth was exploded," said one</font></font></span>
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deputy council leader in southern England.</font></font></span>
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A spokesman for East Sussex County Council, which</font></font></span>
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plans to build an incinerator, said, "It's idealistic to think that</font></font></span>
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everything can be recycled. It's just not possible. Incineration</font></font></span>
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has an important role to play."</font></font></span>
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The Swedish group said that the "vision of a recycling</font></font></span>
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market booming by 2010 was a dream 40 years ago and is</font></font></span>
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still just a dream."</font></font></span>
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The use of incineration to burn household waste -</font></font></span>
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including packaging and food - "is best for the environment,</font></font></span>
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the economy and the management of natural resources," they</font></font></span>
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wrote in an article for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter.</font></font></span>
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Technological improvements have made incineration</font></font></span>
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cleaner, the article said, and the process could be used to</font></font></span>
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generate electricity, cutting dependency on oil.</font></font></span>
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Mr. Paulsson and his co-campaigners said that collecting</font></font></span>
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household cartons was "very unprofitable."</font></font></span>
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Recycled bottles cost glass companies twice as much as</font></font></span>
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the raw materials, and recycling plastics was uneconomical,</font></font></span>
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they said. "Plastics are made from oil and can quite simply be</font></font></span>
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incinerated."</font></font></span>
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The Swedes stressed that the collection of dangerous</font></font></span>
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waste, such as batteries, electrical appliances, medicines,</font></font></span>
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paint and chemicals "must be further improved."</font></font></span>
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They added, "Protection of the environment can mean</font></font></span>
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economic sacrifices, but to maintain the credibility of</font></font></span>
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environmental politics the environmental gains must be worth</font></font></span>
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the sacrifice."</font></font></span>
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The Environmental Services Association, representing the</font></font></span>
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British waste industry, agreed that the benefits of incineration</font></font></span>
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had been largely ignored.</font></font></span>
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Andrew Ainsworth, its senior policy executive, said, "This</font></font></span>
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is a debate that we need to have in this country. Recycled</font></font></span>
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products have got to compete in a global market, and</font></font></span>
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sometimes recycling will not be economically viable or</font></font></span>
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environmentally sustainable."</font></font></span>
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A spokesman for the government's Department for</font></font></span>
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said incineration was</font></font></span>
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"way down the list" because "it causes dangerous emissions,</font></font></span>
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raises public concern and sends out a negative message about</font></font></span>
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reuse."</font></font></span>
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