'Insufficient planning': How the UK's recycling rates were allowed to flat-line for a decade

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Damning National Audit Office claims government plans for a long-term waste management strategy 'do not yet exist'

It was somewhat overshadowed by the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) highly critical report on the government's negligible decarbonisation policy progress, but last week's report from the National Audit...

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