Labour to promote packaging recycling, again
Hilary Benn, Environment Secretary, has again insisted that the UK must recycle more packaging whilst speaking at the Labour Party conference in Brighton this week.
Delegates were instructed to stop terming things as 'rubbish' and sending to landfill, and, that it was necessary to "value and use everything around us". "We're now recycling more than four times as much household waste than we did a decade ago, but we can do more".
He added, "It doesn't make sense to dump thousands of tonnes of aluminium in landfill every year when someone will buy it and turn it into cans, using 90% less energy."
Mr Benn said that making food waste into electricity made more sense than throwing it away where it rots and produces greenhouse gases.
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will today give, again, a speech which is being billed as the speech of his life.
