A Rubbish Service: ITV 1 - UK television.
Is this a waste of time?
I watched this and was amazed by what actually happens with our so called green way we are supposed to collect and recycle household waste.
As local authorities punish residents for failing to abide by recycling laws, Mark Jordan (ITV reporter), looks into whether the organisations themselves stand up to the same level of scrutiny. The reporter also looks into what becomes of recycled rubbish after it is taken away by refuse collectors. It is unbelievable that household waste that was separated into special bins and taken away by recycle collecting companies (who were awarded the contract from the local council), have been collecting all the different coloured bins (on different days), and sending them all off to India as separated recyclable waste. Such as tin cans, plastics, paper, etc. all to be recycled and used again. But this is not happening; they are all mixed up in the same shipping containers and when they get to India, or wherever they are going, end up in a land filled site, completely useless to anyone. So household waste is travelling 5,000 miles to a new hole in the ground, a complete waste of time, resource and adding to the anti green effect.
This was one example of what happens to peoples waste, and to prove this was genuine, the reporter excavated the land fill sites (up to 30 feet deep), and found all UK waste with the UK branded goods. Having found some personal letters, that were supposed to be recycles as pulp for paper, they traced these back to the owner in the UK, who was flabbergasted as to how they ended up in a land fill site in India. All unbelievable, yet just the icing on the cake.
So being green, is this really doing a good deed and saving on the environment, when the only thing the refuse collectors are interested in is lining their pockets with the 'green back!'
