I recently moved from the UK to Japan and came across this for the first time...
You buy your bin-bags in packs, either large or small in size (volume). They're not that cheap- average about 3 UK pounds for a pack of 20- see-through, and have different coloured print on them, indicating what should be put in them.
Basically, the price of the bags pays for its collection and disposal. In short, if you throw out just one bag of rubbish a week you're not paying the same as someone who throws out fifteen bags a week.
The best bit is that the bags for recycleable items (separated into metals, glass, PET bottles, 'other' plastics) are markedly cheaper than those for burnable rubbish (food scraps, paper that you choose not to recycle, etc), so if you sort your rubbish into burnable and recyclable, you're both saving money / the planet and reducing the number of land-fill sites in your country.
How would you UK folk like this system back home? I for one think it's a great idea.
2007-03-25
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Phil K
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