An article (“Revealed: why millions of tonnes of recycling are going up in smoke”, 7 March, page 20) said freedom of information requests made for Channel 4’s Dispatches revealed that 45% of waste collected for recycling in Southend-on-Sea was sent for incineration, while the amount for Warwickshire was 38%. After publication both councils stated that they had inadvertently provided incorrect figures to the programme-makers. Southend says 8%-9% of material collected for recycling is incinerated; Warwickshire estimates that it burns 5%-10%.
The town of Cardigan is in the county of Ceredigion, not Pembrokeshire as we had it in a feature about hotels by the sea (“Shore leave”, 7 March, page 31, Magazine).
When mentioning an award of funding for its renewal we referred to “Newark Cathedral” when Newark Castle was meant (“Contested grants to hidden cuts: how ‘Scrooge’ Sunak’s shine faded”, 7 March, page 6).
Other recently amended articles include:
Fans and artists must have Covid vaccine before attending music festivals, say some organisers
To expand women’s prisons is idiotic and inhumane. We should phase them out
School Covid tests: positive results ‘very likely’ to be false
The Train review – it’s Lancaster v Scofield in this French Resistance thriller
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