[GreenYes] Re: (surprise!) recycling better than dumping and burning

["Reindl, John" <Reindl@no.address>]

Thanks for sending this, Alan.

Can you give us a link to either this news release or to the report itself?

John 

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>From: GreenYes@no.address [mailto:GreenYes@no.address]On
>Behalf Of Alan Muller
>Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:31 PM
>To: GreenYes@no.address
>Subject: [GreenYes] (surprise!) recycling better than dumping and
>burning
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>By Paul Sanderson
>
>Recycling has been proven to be the best way to deal with waste in an 
>environmentally friendly way, a major study has found.
>
>The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) commissioned the 
>report from the Technical University of Denmark and the Danish Topic 
>Centre on Waste to look at hundreds of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) 
>studies from around the globe to work out what is the best way of 
>dealing with waste in order to minimise harmful CO2 emissions.
>
>Its research concluded that for glass, wood, paper and cardboard, 
>plastics, aluminium, steel and aggregates, recycling created less 
>emissions that other waste treatments including incineration 
>and landfill.
>
>However, with some materials such as wood, there were only a limited 
>amount of LCA studies available and so the data is still sketchy.
>
>WRAP director of policy and evaluation Ray Georgeson said: "A report 
>like this hasn't been done anywhere in the world before. More than 
>80% of the studies we looked at show recycling has better 
>environmental impact than landfill and incineration.
>
>"This is good news all round. It chimes with the waste hierarchy, 
>Government plans for the Waste Strategy and shows recycling makes a 
>significant contribution to helping prevent climate change."
>
>The report even shows that when transportation of materials for 
>recycling abroad is still better environmentally than creating a 
>product from virgin material or sending it for landfill or 
>incineration in the UK.
>
>In order to work out the best life cycle for each material, the 
>Danish researchers looked at Life Cycle Analyses and worked out which 
>form of waste treatment the study has a preference for. In most 
>cases, recycling came out top. For example, it was found that for the 
>recycling of plastics, 32 studies preferred recycling of the material 
>compared to only 8 for incineration. While 15 studies preferred 
>recycling to none for landfill when it came to plastics recycling.
>
>A similar pattern was found for paper, glass, aluminium and steel.
>
>WRAP plans to hold an international conference in the autumn to 
>discuss the findings of the report. 
>
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