Recycling? What a Load of Rubbish ; Millions of Well-Intentioned Britons Trying to Be Green Have Been Reduced to Spluttering Rage by the Lunacy of the Recycling Gestapo

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THROWING away rubbish used to be so simple. You put it in the bin, waited for the dustcart to come and that was that. You paid for this through your rates, and thought no more of it.

There is nothing simple about rubbish now.

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Recycling? What a Load of Rubbish ; Millions of Well-Intentioned Britons Trying to Be Green Have Been Reduced to Spluttering Rage by the Lunacy of the Recycling Gestapo

Britain is in the grip of a maniacal recycling drive that has already seen people fined and created the first 'recycling martyrs'.

Slowly but surely, our refuse - all 300 million tons of it a year - has fallen into the hands of zealots. It can only be a matter of time before someone goes to prison for failing to cut out the window from an envelope, or the heinous crime of mixing glass and tin.

The Government is, of course, very keen that we recycle. The EU Landfill Directive, which seems to be the fuel for this Great Recycl...

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