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People will still be visited by officers if they are throwing away recyclable waste.
BBC: Monmouthshire council scraps clear bin bags plan
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The council said non-recyclable waste, including irons and mattresses, had been dumped at the sites turning them into "eyesores".
BBC: Oxford
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Vale of White Horse District Council has blamed "irresponsible companies" and "lazy individuals" for dumping non-recyclable waste at bin sites.
BBC: Oxford
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Buckinghamshire County Council said the facility was expected to convert 300, 000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste a year into enough energy to power up to 36, 000 homes.
BBC: Artists impression of Calvert incinerator
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About half of the local authorities in the UK currently operate so-called "alternate week collections", whereby recyclable waste is removed one week, and black bag rubbish the next.
BBC: Call to recycle food separately
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The States has instructed PSD to introduce the house-to-house collection of recyclable waste - both inert and putrescible - as soon as possible, as part of a new strategy to increase recycling.
BBC: Guernsey minister defends kerbside recycling costs
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Companies that have their origin in social enterprise find that meeting commitments are part of their founding corporate DNA. New Jersey-based TerraCycle, for example, builds its products from non-recyclable waste that would otherwise be dumped in landfills.
FORBES: Clarifying Corporate Responsibility, Part III: Committing To Improvement
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Many foreign firms, of course, are doing well in China, especially at the two extremes of the value chain: things like luxury goods, fibre-optic cable and big aeroplanes on the one hand, and oil, ores and recyclable waste on the other.
ECONOMIST: Selling foreign goods in China
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It portrays the innovative work of former Mayor of Curitiba (Brazil), Jaime Lerner, who was responsible for developing an efficient public transport system (the MetroBus), and a clever system of sorting of waste (Cambio verde), which offers to the poorest urban dwellers the possibility to exchange recyclable waste for fruits and vegetables.
UNESCO: Social Sciences
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Many councils have moved away from weekly collections in recent years, arguing that alternate weekly collections for household-and-food waste and recyclable items are more efficient and popular with residents.
BBC: Eric Pickles warns councils over weekly bin collections
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Most households are provided with bins for garden waste, everyday non-recyclable rubbish and a container for paper and tins.
BBC: Paper