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Cash for Trash? Tories offer a recycling sweetner
On Tuesday, the Tories, still ahead in the opinion polls and widely expected to gain power in an election, which must be held by June 2010, went on a green charm offensive.
It’s unlikely to steal the election, but it nevertheless got heads turning and newspapers gnashing.
The centrepiece of their eye-catching plans to tackle global warming was a scheme where households will be rewarded cash incentives to recycle mountains of trash.
UK households generate around 35 millions of tonnes of waste a year, according to the party. Only around a fifth of that rubbish is recycled – less than half the proportion managed in Germany.
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The Wall
