Ban Direct Marketing (Junk Mail) or Tax Senders To Pay For Recycling

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Ban Direct Marketing (Junk Mail) or Tax Senders To Pay For Recycling

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In Cornwall alone, the local council estimates that 4,000 tonnes of junk mail from various sources are ending up in landfill every year - enough to fill about 500 dustcarts that amount to about 3% of the overall waste Cornwall dumps into landfill.

Esther O'Bearagh, from Cornwall council, said it costs around £700,000 to landfill junk mail each year.

"It's quite incredible when you start doing the maths," she said.

Even if all that junk mail were successfully diverted to the recycling box, the cost to the county would sill be close to £500,000 a year at around £119 a tonne.

The Government should either ban junk mail all together or tax senders to pay for the recycling

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