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Originally Posted by Cotham Marble  Secondly, recycled glass requires no extraction costs or activity, and therefore reduces demand for quarried or dredged aggregate, quarrying and dredging both being environmentally damaging processes.
So folks, keep those bottle banks filled - they never suffer from toxic debt syndrome.
CM |
That's true, and indeed I realised that after I posted. I just have this instintive dislike for the idea of providing materials for roads - it is the road element I have a problem with.
I'd still like to see more re-use brought back into the waste management processes, eg deposits on bottles etc.