Key points: Waste Strategy

Environment Secretary David Miliband has revealed a waste strategy for England.

Key points include:

Councils could charge households based on the amount of rubbish they produce, while households who recycle more will be financially rewarded. Any such schemes would have to be "revenue neutral" - ie it there must be no overall increase in local taxes

More recycling facilities in public places including shopping centres and parks

An increased target of 40% of household waste recycled/composted by 2010, increasing to 45% by 2015 and then to 50% by 2020

Reducing the amount of household waste that is not re-used, recycled or composted from 22.2 million tonnes in 2000 to 15.8 million tonnes in 2010, with "an aspiration" to reduce it to 12.2 million tonnes by 2020.

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