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IT’S good to see government think tanks using their observational skills to the full. As evidence, reader Kevin Jump quotes from the recent report Waste Not, Want Not: A strategy for tackling the waste problem from a British government strategy unit: “England has traditionally relied on landfill because of the country’s abundance of holes…”

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