The UK produces over 26 million tonnes of rubbish every year. The LGA is urging the country to fully exploit a resource that currently ends up in landfills. The report reads: "Taxpayers will be better off, the economy will benefit, and more people will have jobs if we grow our domestic market for collecting, sorting and reprocessing recycling. Landfilling waste costs a lot of money; burning it is still expensive; recycling actually brings in cash for the taxpayer and we owe it to today's hard-pressed taxpayers to get as much of their money back as possible." It adds: "There is wealth in waste. It is time to take the lid off the dustbin debate and raise the sights of government…from the kerbside to the global economic race.