Edie reports that UK recycling companies fear that the upcoming restrictions by the Chinese on waste plastics imports risks increasing pollution at home. Shipping our waste overseas has always seemed to me to be a somewhat dodgy policy. Now the odd chicken appears to be coming home to roost.
Unfortunately, there would seem to be no robust plan on how to cope with this change. Michael Gove is obviously not on the ball: "I don't know what impact it will have. It is ..... something to which - I will be completely honest - I have not given it sufficient thought". A few marks for honesty then but what we really want is minsters and their departments doing a proper job. A Defra spokesperson trotted out the usual mantra: "We are continuing to work with the waste industry blah blah blah". Such statements mean absolutely nothing.
At a time when Brexit is already hitting the pocket of Joe Public the last thing he wants is his rates to rise because the price of export waste falls and the cost of UK disposal increases.
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