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A British government has claimed that the nation's garbage is an gold mine that's potentially over $4.5 billion. The Local Government Association's (LGA) on Britain's waste disposal, ‘Wealth from Waste', says local governments could earn by 2020 to provide better services to . The study outlines how the scheme could additionally create over 50,000 jobs by the household recycling sector. LGA executive Clyde Loakes said: “There is wealth in waste. The UK’s waste and recycling sector is currently worth around £11 billion and growing at the rate of the rest of the economy, but there is so much more we could do to make the most of this booming ."

The UK over 26 million tonnes of rubbish every year. The LGA is urging the country to fully a resource that ends up in landfills. The report reads: "Taxpayers will be better off, the economy will , and more people will have jobs if we grow our market for collecting, sorting and reprocessing recycling. Landfilling waste costs a lot of money; it is still expensive; recycling actually brings in for the taxpayer and we owe it to today’s hard-pressed to get as much of their money back as possible." It adds: "There is wealth in waste. It is time to take the off the dustbin debate and raise the sights of government…from the kerbside to the global economic ."

 


 
 

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