Peering into the past, present and future of rubbish

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In this edited essay extract Dominic Hogg from Eunomia Research & Consulting explores how the waste industry has changed over the last years - and considers what the next 15 years might bring

Over this week BusinessGreen has been exclusively syndicating extracts from a new essay collection on greening the UK's supply chain. The essays, compiled by the All-Party Parliamentary Sustainable Resource...

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