In Sweden and Holland you pay for your rubbish collection according to the size of the container.

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And if you see a piece of rubbish lying on the footpath, don't step over it -- pick it up.

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Solid rubbish is also bad for you when you literally live on top of it, as do the people of Korogocho, a Nairobi slum.

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Are you looking forward to separating and sorting out the rubbish.

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Have you ever thought your newspaper is a load of rubbish?

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If rubbish was in fact valuable, if you could make money by recycling it, then no one would want to put it in a hole in the ground.

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He might start with a conventional-looking figure cast in bronze, but when you got close you saw it was disfigured with bits of junk reclaimed from rubbish dumps.

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One leading TV presenter has called it "lowest common denominator television", while a group called Smile You're On TV has called on viewers to place rubbish bins outside the offices of the channel screening the programme.

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Ministers are currently passing legislation to get rid of the previous Labour government's policy of offering councils the chance to take part in pilot "pay-as-you-throw" schemes which charge households which create the most rubbish.

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You don't make an appointment and there is none of the rubbish of waiting rooms.

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The first thing you notice walking round the Reliance site there is how spotless it is: no rubbish or legions of people hanging about.

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