The following headline appeared in the Scotland section of The Sunday Times on 12 March this year:UK dustbin fear as Waste Crisis looms.

On the very point that recycling may be a good thing, I am sure that, in his studies for the debate, he has read the Greenpeace report "PVC Plastic: A Looming Waste Crisis", which was published on 2 April 1999.

There is a new awareness that our society faces a Waste Crisis which, quite rightly, has moved the issue of waste management from the margins to the centre of political debate.

Without action, we face a Waste Crisis.

There is now a general understanding of the Waste Crisis: ordinary citizens recognise that it is impossible to go on putting more and more waste into the ground and they seek a lead from the Government on recycling.

Students like these, the future engineers and designers of our products, should be helped to find practical solutions to our growing Waste Crisis.