Waste charge 'should be ditched'

Neighbourhoods should be rewarded with community support officers or revamped parks if they reduce the amount of rubbish they throw out, a report says.

Ministers are consulting on whether charging will encourage more recycling. In May, the then Environment Secretary David Miliband said he wanted councils to make people who fail to recycle household rubbish pay more than those who do.

A survey by the Local Government Association last month suggested that almost two-thirds of people would support a "pay-as-you-throw" system of collecting household waste.

The government wants to reduce household waste from over 22.2m tonnes in 2000 to 15.8m tonnes in 2010. It aims to make a further reduction to 12.2m tonnes in 2020 - equivalent to a reduction of 40% per person.

View Full Article 11^th September 2007

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