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THE GOVERNMENT has quietly adopted powers enabling it to introduce national pay-as-you-throw rubbish taxes of up to £100 without a vote in parliament.
Bin Taxes to be rolled out across the UK. FIDO The Dog 2009
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Opponents, however, say the technology will make it easy for the government to resurrect plans for the introduction of a £50 pay-as-you-throw tax on millions of families.
Spying garbage cans... GayandRight 2009
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The Prime Minister could veto plans for a national pay-as-you-throw bin scheme and scrap a deeply unpopular 2p rise in fuel duty in a bid to woo back disaffected voters.
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The Prime Minister could veto plans for a national pay-as-you-throw bin scheme and scrap a deeply unpopular 2p rise in fuel duty in a bid to woo back disaffected voters.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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This pay-as-you-throw program creates a direct economic incentive to recycle more and waste less.
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This pay-as-you-throw program creates a direct economic incentive to recycle more and waste less.
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Environment Minister Joan Ruddock made clear that Labour will press ahead with pay-as-you-throw charges which are likely to cost families an extra £50 a year.
Archive 2008-07-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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Like Plymouth, more and more communities are grappling with whether to abandon traditional garbage service and adopt so-called pay-as-you-throw systems.
Kicking the Cans 2008
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Her solution: some form of pay-as-you-throw tax that charges householders according to the amount dumped.
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The barcodes, to be brought in by a group of 27 councils, can also be used to enforce pay-as-you-throw taxes.
Is this coming to Canada??? GayandRight 2007
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