The government's ugly waste strategy

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Global Action Plan's Trewin Restorick urges the government to rethink its approach to waste, and wonders if more companies will penalise frequent fliers

Last week saw the Environment Select Committee's assessment of the Government's waste strategy. It didn't make for pretty reading. The main criticism of the report was that there is no coherent policy...

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