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To: "Strategy Cabinet-Office" < strategy@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
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Subject: WASTE
Date: 23 September 2002 10:23 PM
The interim WASTE discussion document
It does raise some interesting questions i.e. questions that the document does
not include, and why it does not.
1:- If the basement is flooded because bath is overflowing, one would assume a logical course of action would be to go upstairs and turn the damned tap off
instead of paddling about in a rising tide wondering what to do with the water in the basement.
Following on that line of thought:
2:- Where does the waste come from? and I do not limit it to dustbins as the report seems to.
a:- One of the major sources is from food packaging, and having run an on-farm production and packhouse which went from a wooden returnable crate that lasted
for years (some still about with a 50 year old date on them) to non-returnable crates, to cardboard, to plastic supermarket crates (that are changed at a
supermarket whim though lack of fore-thought) and plastic wrapping.
And we have a waste problem?
b:- I have also run a packing plant for an international company that imported packed produce from all over the world.
Two people were occupied on each shift feeding a compactor with the packaging that was used to transport the goods in (the produce having been repacked in to
plastic trays).
2 compactor loads of cardboard and 4 mobile compactor loads of polystyrene a week
And we have a waste problem?
3:- Waste is big business today, both the production of it and the disposal/recycling, and no one involved wants to find a solution, and all
parties involved (including the government) blame the public who foot the bill of others greed.
4:- 'The amount of municipal waste produced by the UK is growing at around 3% per year'.
So what do you propose to do to reduce it?
I forgot, blame the public.
5:- 'Barriers to Change'.
The biggest barrier is the political parties never ending need for money (like the Labour party's £10m debt) which restricts the governments ability to nail
the problem i.e. stamping down hard on the originators - the supermarkets with their supplier requirements.
6:- 'There are no easy answers'.
There is, but it does require a mental shift by the government i.e. start identifying the problem instead of chasing symptoms.
The Labour party WAS the peoples party, it is now the party that has been taken over by corporations that pay 'small' funds in to the party purse and are
rewarded by lucrative contracts that are funded by the public ..................... and it's the public's fault.
I would suggest you forget about 'joined-up-thinking' and concentrate on BLOCK
CAPITAL THINKING, you could half the tax bill and give our children a chance of a future.
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