BRITAIN will run out of landfill sites in eight years time.

This is because we are burying 18 million tonnes of household waste every year.

We have actually reduced our landfill rubbish by a third in the last 10 years but are likely to fall well short of the EU-set targets of recycling paper, food and garden waste.

Gary Porter, chairman of the Local Government Association’s environment board, said: "An area the size of Warwick is already being used to dump Britain's rubbish and unless there are radical changes in the way we produce and dispose of our waste it is estimated we will run out of landfill space in less than eight years."

All I can say is I feel sorry for Warwick.

So we need radical new ideas before we are over-run with garbage.

Like burying it in concrete bunkers along the seaside to stop the erosion of the coast. Or making flat and boring countryside more appealing by using it to make a new mountain range between Lincoln and Skegness. Alternatively we could fill in little used parts of Wales and Scotland where they have lots of empty valleys or burn it as fuel to produce power instead of nuclear energy.

If all else fails, send it at special postal rates to relatives and friends in America. They’ve been sending us their rubbish for years (TV, films, fast food, wars, attitudes) so maybe it's time to send some back.

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