The latest government proposal aimed at easing the overflowing land fill sites is to ban food, glass and drinks cans from our rubbish bins. This would most likely be enforced by fines to anyone who falls foul.
It is widely expected that this will be one of a number of plans to be introduced by the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn later today.
Another expected proposal is likely to be clearing up the mystery that surrounds "best before" and "use by" dates on perishable goods which would help towards reducing the average family waste of £610 of perfectly good food each year, a statistic that has to change if the government are going to really tackle the our throw away society.
Following on from this story we have heard that a company in the US Boxed Water Is Better plans on selling water in cartons (if you couldn't catch that from the title) which they believe will reduce the carbon footprint normally associated with bottled water by up to 80%. The only problem which industry experts see from this is the Tetra Pak carton which holds the water can't even be recycled here, they have to be shipped abroad, whoops!
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Rubbish Banned!
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