Not In My Backyard – Destroying Syria’s Chemical Weapons in Albania

We do not hear much about Syria these days. It seems that the agreement to remove and destroy the chemical weapons of Syria has removed the threat of an intervention by the Western democracies which will now not bomb Syria and add their own destruction to the destruction and death that they Syrians are inflicting upon themselves, with a little help from their friends. 

Waste and recycling centres and issues at Witely

Landfill sites cause big environmental problems. No one wants to live next door to what is in effect a dumping ground for other people’s rubbish. There are so problems for a developed densely populated country like the United Kingdom if all they can do with copious amounts of rubbish is to dig a hole in the ground and bury it. Out of sight is not out of mind or out of hearing or out of smelling distance or out of environmental harm’s way. It is no more than sweeping the dust under the carpet.