Rubbish tax 'to boost recycling'
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Households could be charged per bag of rubbish as part of the government's plans to boost recycling.
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Carbon "credit cards" could be used to encourage carbon thrift, Environment Secretary David Miliband suggests.
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Councils are advised to begin fortnightly rubbish collections in autumn, winter or early spring to avoid complaints.
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The recycling process, which went into pilot in 2005, will go into full manufacturing now, with the goal of doubling the number of recycled inkjet cartridges.
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By Kathleen Kreller, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Jan. 30--Boise residents would have to pay more for garbage pickup,  recycling and sewer hookups with proposed fee increases.   The Boise City Council will consider the fee increases during a public  hearing tonight.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday called for the return of a tax on companies to pay for cleaning toxic waste sites, riling Republicans who called it unfair for firms that do not despoil the environment.
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By JIM LUDWICK Journal Staff Writer  The city will be digging into its own garbage dump this weekend to recover some 150 tons of recyclable material taken to a landfill instead of a recycling plant.
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Recycling programs are improving the environmental impact of all the packaging Americans consume, says Patrick J. Moore, chairman and chief executive of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation.
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By Tom Troy, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 4--About 22 percent of Toledo households have pledged to join the city's curbside recycling program and save themselves $2.50 a month on the new trash collection fee, city officials say.
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More money would be raised from "green" taxes under the Tories, says shadow chancellor George Osborne.
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By John Castellucci; Journal Staff Writer  PAWTUCKET - A City Council committee is recommending the elimination of fees for the pickup of bulky trash items.
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San Francisco, which has long  prided itself on environmentally friendly policies, is debating  whether it should become the first U.S. city to tax grocery  bags to encourage recycling.
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FROM a practical point of view, recycling is a sensible way to cut down on waste. But there's more to recycling than that. The beauty of recycling is that it breathes new life into old objects. Sometimes the results can be surprising and magical.
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The United States Postal Service will begin using packaging made with recycled materials and take other steps to reduce its impact on the environment, Postmaster General John Potter said on Wednesday.
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FAMILIES will be able to find out at first hand the importance of recycling their rubbish on Saturday. Park rangers will be talking about a variety of issues at Environment Day which takes place on Saturday, June 16 between 10am and 4pm.
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Online auction company eBay Inc.  EBAY.O on Thursday unveiled an initiative to join personal  computer makers and their environmental critics in an effort to  recycle more of the up to 400 million electronic products that  are thrown out every year.
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Bubble-gum blowers beware: Ireland is mulling a tax on chewing gum to fund the cost of cleaning the sticky stuff from its pavements.