£50 recycling incentives 'likely'

Households could be rewarded or fined according to the amount of rubbish they recycle, under pilot schemes due to run in five parts of England next year. Each council would be able to fix its own policy but environment minister Joan Ruddock said payments generally worked well in other parts of Europe.

The sums in question were likely to be in the range of £50, she suggested. The Local Government Association said action was needed because Britain was now "the dustbin of Europe". Under the trial, due to begin next April, households which recycled the most rubbish and left the least in their bin would receive a rebate.

Those in the worst-performing homes would be charged for the rubbish they left, and it would be the money from them which would cover the costs of rewards for active recyclers.

View Full Article 19^th June 2008

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