"Throwaway Clothing"

Horrors! Clearly western civilisation is under threat from the callous manner in which we rape Gaia in order to clothe our nakedness!

Cheap garments, often made from manmade materials which cannot be recycled easily, are being worn just a few times and then binned, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee found.

As a result the proportion of textile waste at council tips has risen from 7 per cent to 30 per cent in five years.

I'm just wondering whether there's been anything else going on over the past five years. Has there, for example, been a rise in recycling? I rather think there might have been you know, certainly much effort has been put into making such recycling happen.

Have we been diverting certain products away council tips to other methods of disposal? Again, I rather think that we have.

In fact, I'm under the general impression that the total amount of stuff going into landfills, to council tips, has been falling over the past five years. Which would mean that, or at least it is possible that, the amount of clothing going to them hasn't changed at all. Only that x tonnes of clothing is now a larger percentage of that smaller amount going to the tips.

Actually, western civilisation might indeed be at risk: from politicians gullible enough to swallow this guff.