I have as you say "unhealthy obsession with the "poms"". Its a friendly feedback to those British that call Aussies,"convicts" Your a bit sensitive are you not?
As you say burning off the waste it would not be positive to air quality. My question focused on dumping waste. As you have a population of 69.5 million.in an are of UK being 241,930 Km². We have a population of 27.2 million in an area of 7,688,287 km2 Big difference hey!
From your explanation, you do not mention dumping garbage but burn it which includes plastic stuff which is toxic! Is that correct But after burning you still have waste. What do you do with that?