More jobs, less carbon: why we need landfill bans
This infographic identifies the jobs and carbon benefits that landfill bans, better collection systems, and new reprocessing infrastructure could have for the UK.
Keeping five key waste materials out of landfill and sending them instead for recycling, remanufacturing and reuse could:
- support 47,500 skilled UK jobs
- save £3.8 billion of valuable products and materials from being lost to the UK economy
- cut 14.1 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, equal to emissions from 2.7 million homes
- Author(s):
- Dustin Benton
- Publication Date:
- 24 March, 2014
- ISBN:
- Cost:
- Free
- Theme:
- Resource stewardship
