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Tuesday, 26 October 2021

A sustainability expert from Kingston University has agreed that recycling plastics will not resolve the global waste problem.

It’s after the Prime Minister Boris Johnson told schoolchildren at a Downing Street press conference that recycling doesn’t work. 

Dr Paul Micklethwaite said, “It treats the symptom and not the cause and does not address the underlying challenge of our over consumption of resources...

We should seek to reduce our production of waste in the first place, then seek to directly reuse what we do generate, and only then consider recycling.”