Recycling 'like building a sandcastle to stop a tsunami'

Recycling 'like building a sandcastle to stop a tsunami'
Northland Waste founder Colin Cashmore has reservations about the government's waste diversion efforts. (Image: Supplied)
Colin Cashmore
You know that warm fuzzy feeling we get when we recycle? Well, turns out, in many cases, it might not be the total saviour we think it is. Waste Management's landfill commercial manager, Tim Brake, dropped a bomb with his headline "Recycling Is a Fraud". He made me think that while recycling might make us feel good, it could end up leaving us no better off, at a higher cost financially and environmentally. I declare I have a vested interest in the waste industry. I founded Manawatu Waste in the 1990s and Northl...

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