War on Waste is the name of a campaign lauched by the UK's Local Government Association (LGA) early in 2007. According to the LGA, households in the UK send more than 26.8million tonnes of rubbish to landfill every year - the equivalent of almost half a tonne for every person in the country. The figures also show that Britain sends 7million tonnes more rubbish into landfill than any other country in Europe. Germany which has a population 25% larger than the UK disposes of less than half the amount of rubbish into the ground.