Independent: You’ve probably read reports of 1950s newspapers being excavated from landfill sites, intact and distinctly unbiodegraded. You may be aware that we each produce our own bodyweight in waste every 7.5 weeks [Wastewatch] and that 55 per cent of the UK’s total generated municipal waste gets sent to landfill [Defra] where it fails to biodegrade. The good news is that these figures are now on the slide — and quite dramatically (British landfill deposits have decreased by 33 per cent since …