Will a pay-as-you-throw rubbish charge make more people recycle their waste?

Question

Will a pay-as-you-throw rubbish charge make more people recycle their waste?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

No, I think there's more likely to be an increase in fly tipping, or they'll toss their rubbish into the neighbours' gardens, or into someone else's bin.

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Answer 3

when they hit our pocket we always respond, why dont they cut down in the first place on all this fancy packaging, we dont need it.

Answer 4

No. More likely more rubbish in your front garden and stuff in your bin from other people.

Answer 5

No. Whenever I have too much rubbish I just put it into carrier bags and take it to the shops with me. I then place it into the rubbish bins that they have there. If you take a bag of rubbish a day it soon gets rid of it! As long as you don't put anything with your name and address in it you're fine.

I have two kids and sometimes my wheelie bin isn't big enough. I can't recycle as the council don't provide us with seperate bins.

Answer 6

My city has a two bag limit every week..

otherwise you get the tags...

We stick to it :)

Answer 7

for the honest folks, yes. for the dis-honest or don't care crowd, no. they will just bury it in their backyard polluting the groundwater or try to sneak it in others trash bins at night.

Answer 8

Just another Government tax, it has nothing to do with the environment.

Answer 9

It will encourage illegal dumping.  That's the problem with the way hazardous materials are regulated.  It's a service governments need to provide or the government will end up footing the cleanup bills.

Answer 10

Possibly, but I think even those who are already hard core recyclers take issue with the unfairness of charging the consumer for he excessive packaging - which in many cases we can't avoid. It would make much more sense to give incentives to companies to cut down on packaging.