If any household was not recycling enough, waste-awareness officers would be sent to have an informal chat or an information leaflet would be given out about the benefits of being green.
He said fortnightly collections are "hygienic and popular", provided they are "accompanied by decent recycling and weekly food waste pick-ups too".
The pair's local authority - St Edmundsbury Borough Council - said its recycling rates for household waste had gone up from 50.05% (2007-8) to 52.3% (2011-12).
Those are the very characteristics he finds in Republic Services, the No. 2 U.S. provider, behind Waste Management (WM), of solid-waste services, including collection, disposal and recycling of thrash.
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According to SWP's annual performance report for 2011-12, "household waste arisings" - the total of domestic rubbish and recycling - fell by 4% to 990kg.
Avondale currently charges a gate price to customers to receive and treat municipal, commercial and industrial black-bag waste at the recycling facility.
Brian leads cross-departmental, tactical management plan teams working on environmental improvement -- in the areas of: engagement, alternate funding, utility conservation, waste reduction and recycling, fleet emissions reduction, green purchasing and sustainable development -- leading the district's indoor air quality program recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a National Model of Sustained Excellence.
The report calls for a common EU standard for colour-coding waste for sorting and recycling, as a way of increasing recycling rates.
"We don't want recycling material going into landfill - it's not waste, it's a commodity and we want to find an outlet, " SITA's Mike Dobson said.
Plans to extend a waste and recycling plant in Surrey have been given the final go-ahead.
Car tyres and six televisions were among the 1.8 tonnes of rubbish dumped by fly-tippers, with about a third of the waste later sent for recycling.
Today, as an organising member of the Zero Waste International Alliance, his campaign to encourage recycling and waste reduction has led to 117 municipalities across Italy closing incinerators and committing to zero-waste strategies.
Other proposals voted through will see cuts to the fire service, the scrapping of half-price bus and train travel for young people and the closure of seven waste recycling centres.
Recycling rates there are two to three times America's, and the rest of their trash goes to waste-to-energy plants.
First and foremost, BigBelly trash bins compact trash using electricity produced by built-in solar panels, which allows each bin to hold about five times more waste or recycling compared to traditional trash bins.
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Unless and until the export is being driven by a desire for more efficient and safe recycling, and not a desire to avoid real costs, export is not the answer to the e-waste crisis.
At the moment, people can be fined with a fixed-penalty notice if they repeatedly break the rules covering rubbish collections, such as recycling incorrectly or leaving waste out on the wrong day.
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