MPs agree increased plastics recycling targets – UK

Posted on December 1, 2012 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News

Plastics & Rubber Weekly – MPs agree increased plastics recycling targets.

“The industry has real concerns about the consequences for UK employment when – and the industry does not believe it is a question of if – it fails to meet the target.”

He pointed out that the UK plastics industry employs 70,000 people so any damage could have a serious effect on jobs.

Almost every time industry gets pushed to do something they don’t like, they drag out the ‘theat of lost jobs’ excuse as if that is enough to allow them to not undertake the changes.   What book have they been reading when almost everything else says that jobs in the UK will be created if the UK was to recycle more of its own plastic waste rather than ship it off shore for someone else.    Politicians have to stand up to these unsubstantiated threats of job losses and make these companies do these changes as in the long run it will be better for them and for the public.