Views

Here are just some of our views on current hot topics.

If you have your own view, please share your comments with us at the bottom of each page.

	Compulsory recycling Millions now put their recycling out on a regular basis, reflected in a more than four-fold increase in the UK recycling rate over the last ten years.
	Food prices In the last fifty years food has become a cheap and plentiful commodity – in developed countries at least. But are those days coming to an end?
	Junk mail Junk mail is post we have not chosen to receive. It wastes valuable natural resources (around 9 million trees annually), clutters up the letterbox, and drives people nuts.
	Pay As You Throw PAYT is controversial as it touches on issues of equity, the relationship between the individual and the State and the 'polluter pays' principle.
	Plastic bottled water Over two billion litres of bottled water are sold in the UK every year - enough to fill the new Wembley Stadium twice over - and only one in five plastic bottles is recycled.
	Plastic carrier bags Over 13 billion plastic shopping bags are given out in the UK every year. Is this an unnecessary waste of resources or just an environmental red herring?
	Recycling quality vs quantity How do we get as many people as possible to recycle, whilst maintaining the quality of the end product?
	Weekly bin collections Waste Watch response to the Government's announcement to support weekly waste collections.