1066 and all that: time to ignore councils' traditional boundaries

摘要

During the previous fortnight, it feels as though everyone has taken a view on the Institution of Civil Engineers' (ICE) report, State of the Nation: Waste and Resource Management, both from within the waste sector and outside it. Many views have been disproportionately focused on the issue drawn out by the report on quantity and quality of household recyclates. But as the debate raged across the national press, commentators seem to have missed some of the more interesting recommendations that ICE made.