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By Lucy Kenningham Waste disposal can be revolutionary, as First Mile boss Bruce Bratley tells Lucy KenninghamFor the most part, people don’t want to talk trash. But at the rate we’re throwing stuff away, we can no longer afford not to. The world emitted 2bn tonnes of solid waste in 2016 – this startling figure will rise to 3.3bn in 2050. As the UK started running out of space, we developed the nasty habit of exporting our trash to developing countries in what Franklin Wallis terms ‘toxic colonialism’. Whilst this has started to be reported upon, as a nation we still export 60 percent of our p…

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