Back on the water
13 September 2012
Growing congestion on the roads has led some organisations to examine whether they can move freight by canal instead. Neil Bromage reports
The clock is going back by more than 200 years on the Lee Navigation in north-east London. Seven local authorities, a group of private waste companies and British Waterways, the organisation that runs the 2,000-mile canal network, have completed a series of successful trials in transporting household refuse by canal.
Under the “Waste by Water” scheme, rubbish...