Mixing Things Up

摘要

In England and Wales nearly 6.5m tonnes of hazardous wastes were sent for disposal and recovery in 2007. In the past much of this waste would have disappeared into hard-pressed landfill sites with the result that huge volumes of products, many hazardous and many re-useable, have been discarded over a long period of time with possible adverse effects on human health and the environment.rnIn recent years the amount of waste being disposed of correctly has increased as treatment methods have improved. This has mainly been brought about by increasingly tough legislation introduced by the environmental and health and safety legislators in Brussels and Westminster, although a much greater level of voluntary green thinking has also helped ensure the positive trend has continued.