Reusable goods 'worth £400m' binned

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Call to ban materials from landfill
Call to ban materials from landfill

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Households are binning far too many perfectly serviceable goods worth more than £400 million every year, according to a report.

Potentially reusable items sent to landfill across England each year, from armchairs to kettles and televisions, weigh almost 615,000 tonnes, or as much as 90,000 elephants, the report of the Local Government Association's (LGA) Reuse Commission said.

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