Where does your recycling really end up?

Millions of tons of UK waste sent abroad may end up in landfill, warns watchdog

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Waste sent abroad from Britain to be recycled may instead be ending up in landfill sites as a result of inadequate monitoring of the system, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned.

A new report by the Government’s spending watchdog criticises the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for its failure to ensure that companies are meeting their packaging recycling obligations.

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