Seaweed recycling plans progress
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 11:52:41
Seaweed is a common sight on the beaches of Britain and in most cases it is fairly innocuous, if slimey stuff to encounter.
Some people enjoy cooking with seaweed, although the food advertised as seaweed which is sold by most Chinese restaurants is usually just cabbage.
However, the Cornish town of Falmouth has had a bit of a problem with seaweed that has come to a head recently, since the product is deposited in large amounts at the local beach by the tide and ends up becoming a stinky mess, according to The Packet.
In order to solve this issue without also creating an environmental hazard, Cornwall Council has announced its intentions to recycle the seaweed.
A spokesperson pointed out that it is not sensible to treat the seaweed as waste, because doing so will mean that it becomes a costly burden on the council and will, ultimately, cost taxpayers money without delivering any benefits.
The green alternative is to see the seaweed as a resource which has innate value. As such, if the council collects it to make the beaches more picturesque and less smelly, it will be doing so with the intention of extracting that value and behaving sustainably.
There are a number of potential recycling opportunities for the seaweed, with some suggesting it could be used as a compostable material that goes towards fertilising local land.
An ongoing consultation is looking into how the seaweed can best be removed from the beach, as well as what local people would want to see it used for when the recycling scheme is initiated.
The rural nature of Cornwall means that there are always farmers willing to take on a little extra fertiliser, so if the recycling effort works out, then every local is a winner.
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