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Wednesday 9th July 2008
George Osbourne, the Conservative Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, will tonight unveil plans to pay each household in the UK for recycling their waste, as oppose to the current Labour government which has used the stick and increased taxes year on year to try and increase recycling. So who is right and who is wrong?
While there has been the expected political squabbling about the news from Conservative head office it seems that the plan, which is modelled on a successful scheme in the US, is workable and looks like being a vote winner. Gordon Brown is now in a very difficult situation in that he cannot now turn around and change his ‘green’ policy because of the Conservatives, he has to push on with more and more tax rises, upsetting more and more voters.
The scheme which is being suggested by the Conservative Party involves private companies rewarding consumers depending on how much waste they recycle. It will also bring Councils into play as they will see the central government tax on council waste fill sites reduced as they are currently charged per ton of waste they place in a landfill site. This seems more like the start of the ‘green’ policies the consumer has been waiting for, but will George Osbourne get a chance to see it through to the end? |
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