Britain is to move towards becoming a zero-waste nation in the coming years, environment secretary Hilary Benn has announced.The minister made the pledge while attending a seminar of representatives of local authorities and the waste industry yesterday (Tuesday, October 13th).Proposals outlined at the event include bringing the UK's total landfill waste down by half in the next decade and using 75 percent of household waste for energy generation or recycling in this time."We need to rethink how we view and treat waste in the UK. Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy?" Mr Benn asked the conference."Using new technologies will help us to re-use things, for example anaerobic digestion that creates energy from food and farm waste."A government consultation on whether items that can be recycled or composted should be banned from being sent to landfill is to be launched next year.http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&Re...
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