England: Household Waste Recycling Down, Incineration Up (A Memo for Corfu)

From Tom Bawden, inews: Household recycling rates go down as waste incineration rises

"Campaigners warned that the waste crisis is deepening after new government figures revealed that household recycling rates are falling – while more rubbish is being disposed of through burning. English households recycled 44.8 per cent of their waste in the year to March 31, as the amount of rubbish that was incinerated increased by 6.5 per cent to 10.8 million tonnes, according to the latest figures".

"Waste incinerators collectively produce the same amount of air pollution over the course of a year as 250,000 working lorries, according to a study published in July by the UK Without Incineration Network, a network which campaigns for a moratorium on new incinerators and a tax on the burning of waste".