Global ecological sustainability - survival of the Planet and its creatures including humankind - requires far more effort by the rich than recycling. Consumption must be reduced through less waste, more efficiency and living simpler lives. The Earth is finite and there is no escaping its ecological limits. Live well, not gluttonously.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Recycling efforts 'being wasted'

Efforts to recycle could be making less difference to the environment than previously thought