An alternative to the incinerator

The authorities seem to have exhausted all the other options

to the incinerator, but have they considered loading a good proportion of our

waste into containers and sending it back where it came from...China.

 

Our landfill sites are overflowing with Chinese made

products and the stores are full of the next batch for the coming future.

 

China is an emerging country with a massive manufacturing

facility and are currently spending £Millions by swarming all over the

continent of Africa raping it of its precious and other metals and would

probably welcome our recyclables to the point they may even pick up the tab for

the shipping costs which would mean we get rid of it for free.

 

Plymouth could lead the way by setting up a twinning link with

an industrial waterside city in China and begin a trend other cities in the UK

could follow. The idea would reduce the amount of waste to be disposed of

locally and we wouldn't need an incinerator parked in the middle of the city,

something most find hard to believe was even considered, never mind agreed by

the council.

 

On another subject, isn't it time potential manufacturers

considered making quality equivalents of the rubbish China sends us.  

 

I recently had to replace my Chinese made washing machine

with a similar one as I'm from a low income family because it gave up the ghost

after just five years service, much to the amazement of the salesman who

claimed he'd never known a Chinese washing machine lasting THAT long. It's hard

to imagine, but today's machines don't even last a quarter of the time that a

British made one would have 30 years ago and time has shown they are the

subject of false economy.

 

Alongside the Chinese selection were some German made

washing machines at more than treble the price and there must be a market for

them as the Germans are hardly likely to build things they can't sell.

 

China is not short on wealth and there are thousands upon thousands

who'd just love to show their neighbours an expensive quality built appliance

sat in the kitchen with a Union Jack badge stuck on the front.

 

Or maybe the Germans need the export revenue more than we

do.

 

NB. When setting up a twinning association, there's no need

to send our politicians to China, invite the Chinese over here at their expense

and load them up with armfuls of holiday brochures to take with them when they

leave.