How can Kensington & Chelsea justify sending the boroughs plastic waste to China for recycling?
I don’t see how they can justify sending the plastic to China unless that is where the recycled plastic is used. If the recycled stuff comes back to Europe then it isn’t good. The idea about recyling is that is good for the environment to do so. If you use losts of fuel sending it all around the world then that is bad for the environment so you have cancelled out the good action of recycling.
It is almost free to send to China, as we import container loads of stuff from them which would otherwise go back empty. Plastic recycling in China is less restrictive health & saftey so is carried out as a cottage industry. Most is re-used locally in China. Paper recycling in China is well managed and clean.
