1. Take it back.
- Author
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Seiple, Robert
- Subjects
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WASTE recycling , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *PACKAGING industry , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
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.
- Published
- 1993