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Posted by Charles G on Thu Nov 19 07:55:21 2009, in response to Good for San Francisco, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Nov 18 20:07:18 2009. Switzerland has an interesting approach.You can recycle for free. Throwing out garbage costs money. The santitation trucks will only collect garbage that is placed in special bags sold by the local government. A 60L (about 15 gallons) garbage bag costs about $2. So you're welcome to throw that plastic bottle or cardboard box in the garbage if you're willing to pay through the nose to have your garbage taken away. Of course, you never know what the secondary effects of change will be. Once this was implemented, the Swiss started recycling more and the actual garbage being incinerated decreased. The incinerators were less efficient below full capacity -- so now they import garbage from Eastern Europe. So revenue is way up, but pollution levels are the same. At least the trash moves by rail, like almost all cargo does here. |
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