Date published: 2008/07/09
The BBC says:
A Tory government would encourage schemes under which people would be paid to recycle, shadow chancellor George Osborne is due to announce.
Mr Osborne will argue that current government policies are unpopular and suggest that "instead of using sticks, we can use carrots" to boost recycling.
Another dumb Tory policy. Indeed, it is hard to find any policy they have announced so far which is not dumb.
Both recycled waste and non-recycled waste carries a cost. People should pay that cost (at least in theory, although in practise there are many problems). Arbitrarily deciding that you should ignore the cost and actually positively reward people for creating recyclable waste is insane. There are many people up and down the country who currently compost their own organic waste. But if government is going to pay them to instead hand it over to the State (instead of charging them for this, like government should), then many people will stop composting. What kind of message is this? The best citizens on this front are the people who create the least amount of recycled and non-recycled waste. Unfortunately the next Tory government evidently does not believe this obvious fact. This is all part of the madness of the academic middle class people who run Europe who believe, bizarrely, that recycled waste is somehow holier than holy.
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