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Brexit! - Deal or No deal with the Environment?  

The question that begs for an answer is: 
Could Brexit mean an exit of environmental policies or will we now have the autonomy to set our own laws and targets?  

In the curfuffle over deal and no deal, the environment has but, just been forgotten!   An extension to Brexit has been granted in principle by the EU negotiators, but things are still up in the air!

Does recycling help the environment or are we just going around in circles?
One of the original goals of the recycling movement was to avert a supposed crisis as the nation’s landfills were running out of space and to reduce carbon emissions and the greenhouse gases as we reduce the need to manufacture new products, hence less mining, drilling and logging.  But because more and more materials types have been added to the recyclable list, the process has become more complex and expensive than expected. In addition, recycling, especially of  plastic waste  mitigates carbon impacts only to a limited extent.