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The article reports that the British government may soon have to oblige industry to take back and recycle the packaging it ships its product in. The British government tends to see itself as a bastion of common sense where European environmental policy is concerned, weighing benefits against costs which more dogmatic governments ignore. Now, foreign dogmatism threatens to drive the government down a road it abhors- forcing it to oblige industry to take back and recycle the packaging it ships its product in. In practice, lots of "recyclables" slip out of Germany, looking for buyers abroad. In Britain, the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life.

The author discusses political posturing among Great Britain's political parties, including the Labor Party and the Conservative Party, over their respective stances toward global climate change. Topics include comments by British Prime Minister David Cameron against an environmental strategy for climate change mitigation and the economic aspects of domestic climate change policies.

This article offers a look at British economist Sir Nicholas Stern's report on climate change, which was commissioned by Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain. Also mentioned is David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative Party, who put green issues at the heart of his attempt to redefine the Conservative Party.