Approximately,
80% of domestic waste in the UK is suitable for recycling or composting yet at the moment the UK recycles only
11% of domestic waste!
This compares with more than
50% of waste being recycled in countries like Switzerland and Austria.
In an effort to change the UK's poor performance at
reducing + recycling the government has announced that it will be encouraging more local councils to try out
rewards for households recycling waste and
penalties for those who do nothing.
In a bid to focus minds the government will also be
raising the landfill tax paid on waste buried in the ground to £16 per metric ton from 2005-2006 and
400 Members of Parliament have requested that every household in the UK be offered doorstep recycling services.
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