So even though rubbish was landfilled here in the 1980s with all the best intentions of keeping it safe, no-one imagined that so little of it would degrade or that a toxic by-product leachate would still be leaching out of it thirty years later. ibid.
Metal is one of the greatest treasures in landfill. ibid.
Stalks flock to landfill sites across Europe. Cities: Nature’s New Wild I: Residents, BBC 2018
Tonight: what’s going on with our waste? Why are parts of the country being used as a dumping ground for rubbish? What impact is our waste having? And do you know what you can and cannot recycle? Tonight: Rubbish: Britain’s Tipping Point, ITV 2019
Birmingham: a series of strikes by bin collectors and more walk-outs in December have again led to rubbish piled up in the streets. ibid.
Black plastic packaging is one of the biggest problems. ibid.
Much of our plastic waste end up in countries in east Asia like Indonesia. ibid.
Tonight: fly-tipping reaches record levels. Lockdown sees illegal dumping soar. The rural areas ruined by rubbish. And the criminals conning communities. Tonight: Fly Tipping: Britain’s Lockdown Problem, ITV 2020
There were over a million incidents of fly-tipping last year in England. It’s an unsightly and expensive problem. ibid.
Britain’s filthy streets. The worrying rise in pandemic plastic. The foulest waste under our feet. And cleaning up the next generation … Every day it’s estimated that over two million pieces of litter are dropped in the UK. And street cleaning costs the taxpayer more than one billion pounds annually. Tonight: Britain’s Filthy Streets, ITV 2021
Fly-tipping: the problem that won’t stop growing. The cost for communities. The people taking action. So how can we clean up Britain? … It’s a scourge on our countryside and it blights our towns and cities. Tonight: Fly-Tipping: Dirty Britain? ITV 2023
Fly-tipping: Britain’s rubbish nightmare. Is fly-tipping out of control? The devastating impact. And what can we all do to reduce our rubbish. Tonight: Fly-Tipping: Britain’s Rubbish Nightmare, ITV 2024
Globally we dump a colossal two billion tons of rubbish every year. But what we chuck away has got to go somewhere. The Secret World of Your Rubbish s1e1, Channel 5 2019
In our capital city thousands of dustbins go out every day of the working week to collect around three million bin-bags full of rubbish. ibid.
Now a tightly regulated industry. ibid.
Landfill waste is bursting at the seems. ibid.
We recycle less than half of our household waste. ibid.
We send around seven million old mattresses to landfill every year. ibid.
Air Salvage International – a company that recycles on an epic scale. ibid.
Underground fires can last for up to twenty years. And are almost impossible to put out. ibid.
All too often they [Crapper & Sons] find stuff that should never have been thrown out in the first place. The Secret World of Your Rubbish s1e2
We dispose of over fifty-two million tons of rubbish in landfill every year. ibid.
The need for more and better recycling is more urgent than ever. Not least because Britain is due to run out of landfill space by 2024. ibid.
We uncover vast hidden world of waste. And we meet the army of workers on the front line clearing up after us day in day out from everyday scraps to radical recycling. The war against our trash never ends. The Secret World of Your Rubbish s1e3
Britain is due to run out of landfill space by 2024. ibid.
There are over forty energy-from-waste facilities in the UK, a fifty per cent rise in the last five years. ibid.
The British waste industry turn over £9 billion a year and employs 70,000 people. But work on the tugboats is not for the fainthearted. ibid.
Globally, we throw about two billion tons of rubbish every year. And we in the UK are all responsible for sustaining this tsunami of trash. Our endless consumption means the average British family creates over one ton of junk a year. But it’s not just the stuff that we buy that’s the problem; everything we do creates a rubbish footprint. The Secret World of Your Rubbish s2e1, Channel 5 2020
The Government’s taxes are also putting pressure on the family’s business. It’s increasingly expensive for local authorities and companies to have their rubbish buried. And they want cheaper and greener alternatives. ibid.
Next door to Twickenham’s iconic rugby stadium, Mogden sewage treatment works is one of the UK’s largest. ibid.
Every time we switch on an appliance or light, we have a hand in creating the most dangerous rubbish on Earth. About 21% of the electricity we use in the UK comes from nuclear power stations. But nuclear power produces nuclear waste. The Secret World of Your Rubbish s2e2
Nuclear waste is just one of the many streams of rubbish we all generate without realising it. ibid.
Every year the average Brit personally generates four hundreds kilograms in rubbish … enough to fill the Albert Hall every two hours. Currently, around 12% of our waste ends up in landfill, but landfill use is in decline due to the increased landfill taxes and environmental concerns. The Secret World of Your Rubbish s2e3
There are 48 operational energy-and-waste facilities in the UK and 10 more currently under construction. ibid.
In the UK we now burn more waste than we recycle or send to landfill. ibid.
Many of the clothes we trash are perfectly wearable. ibid.
‘Eventually we’re going to be in a sea of rubbish, aren’t we?’ ibid. e-rubbish recycler
London’s underground sewer network stretches for an incredible 109,000 kilometres. ibid.
87% of Brits believe we should take responsibility for recycling. The Secret World of Your Rubbish s2e4
Glass: it never loses its quality or purity no matter how many times it’s recycled. The average UK family uses 500 glass bottles and jars every year. And we manage to recycle 67% of it. ibid.
We Brits generate over one and half million tons of plastic waste, much of which ends up buried in landfill or being burned from energy and waste plants. ibid.
Every year more than twenty-eight billion glass bottles and jars end up in the nation’s landfills. ibid.
As a planet we’re throwing away more than ever before. And here in California it’s the front line in the global war on waste. Welcome to the mega-landfill, one of the biggest destinations for our trash in the world. Secrets of the Mega-Landfill, Channel 5 2020
A million bin-bags of rubbish every day. ibid.
A quiet road in Cobham, Surrey … But this Friday in June 2009 was different because at this house the wheelie bin was different: ‘The bin was too heavy. The rubbishmen refused to remove it, then the landlords turned up, and on his way out he looked at the bin and he saw a foot sticking out the top.’ As word spread of the discovery, police asked if anyone could remember the woman who lived at the house. Melanie Wallner, aged 30. It was while working at this exclusive hotel in Surrey she met the chef – Peter Wallner recently arrived from Germany. Faking It: Tears of a Crime, DiscoveryPlus 2020
Peter Wallner told different stories to different people. ibid.
‘His solution is to put her out with the rubbish. And he thinks that because the rubbish is collected mechanically that she will be tipped into the garbage disposal, probably crushed, end up on a landfill and no-one would be any the wiser. And that so nearly could have happened.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychologist
The New York Sanitation Department: It’s the busiest garbage collection department on Earth with over 7,000 uniformed workers and 2,000 garbage trucks. New York: World’s Richest City s1e2, Channel 5 2022
How much of your rubbish is really being recycled? We reveal how millions of tons of waste left out for recycling ends up being incinerated. How burning wastes creates more carbon emissions than you think. And is the shift to incineration holding back recycling rates? Dispatches: The Dirty Truth About Your Rubbish, Channel 4 2021
It’s 11 p.m. on a Tuesday. We’re in East London and we’re following a sofa. There’s definitely fly-tipped waste in this area … This sofa is just one of millions of itens fly-tipped across the UK. Dispatches: Rubbish Tip Britain, Channel 4 2024
We discover new information about how criminal organisations are orchestrating fly-tipping nationwide. ibid.
’There are large illegal waste sites causing pollution and contamination.’ ibid. woman
A missing wife. The husband says it’s self-defence. But is he faking it? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e2: Peter Wallner
A quiet road in Cobham, Surrey, the commuter belt just south of London. It’s a Friday morning – time for the fortnightly emptying of wheelie bins. But this Friday in June 2009 was different because at this house the wheelie bin was different. ibid.
‘The bin was too heavy. The rubbishmen refused to remove it, then the landlords turned up, and on his way out he looked at the bin and he saw a foot sticking out the top.’ ibid. reporter
As word spread of the discovery, police asked if anyone could remember the young woman who lived at the house. Melanie Wallner, aged 30. It was while working at this exclusive hotel in Surrey she met the chef – Peter Wallner recently arrived from Germany. ibid.
His solution is to put her out with the rubbish. And he thinks that because the rubbish is collected mechanically that she will be tipped into the garbage disposal, probably crushed, end up on a landfill and no-one would be any the wiser. And actually that so nearly could have happened. ibid. Kerry