Recycling cycles.

(From Lloyds List)

THE progression of industry around the globe is sometimes very strange. We read that the UK call centre 'sector', much of which is located in the post-industrial towns of the North, is under attack from the Indian subcontinent, where honours graduates are delighted to work for about one-fifth of the wages of a redundant steel worker in Stockport to answer inquiries from the other end of the earth.

Later this year, large-scale ship demolition which we are enjoined to think of as 'recycling' will return to the UK after an absence of many years. A fleet of 13 time-expired US government ships will be towed into the River Tees, locked into a …