UK has a wonderful pay as you throw system. It's like "eureka!". This is an attempt to get consumers to decrease trash while increasing recycling.
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This is a microchip in their trash cans that weigh's the amount of trash thrown away. Then bins weight the trash and the microchip shows where the trash came from. So when the garbage collectors come, they then charge the residents by the amount weighed. Don't like it? RECYCLE!!
And yes, this IS in America also. Some Maine communities are also practicing this "pay as you throw" system. I personally believe this should be a world wide effort.
"Pay as you throw" will obviously lessen the amount of re-usable trash being sent to the landfill. Most states landfills are so full that they are having to pay other states to except their trash. Even some parts of Canada has to pay the US to accept their trash.
In Maine, residents have cut their trash to 50% from the PAYT and the town's recycling rate grew to 150% in one month! With this, the town saves money and ultimately, the tax payers also.
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