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How to fix the UK’s broken recycling system

There are currently 39 different bin collection regimes with different rules and regulations across 391 local authorities

Torik Holmes, research associate at the sustainable consumption institute at the University of Manchester, Helen Holmes, senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Manchester, and Kristoffer Kortsen, post doctoral research associate at the University of Manchester explain how the recycling system in the UK has got so complicated and what can be done to alleviate the issue.

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