Landfill bans could save £2.5bn a year

Will Nichols
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Green Alliance report highlights benefit of extending restrictions on cars and mobile phones to food, clothes, wood, and plastic

Banning food, textiles, wood and plastic from landfill could save resources worth £2.5bn a year and help companies avoid £1bn of landfill costs, think-tank Green Alliance will say today. New research...

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