Monday, January 27, 2003

Making recycling pay Dust Off Those Recycling Bins. A New Jersey company has improved the likelihood that New York City's recycling program will return. [New York Times: Opinion] The company, Hugo Neu, has offered to pay the city more than $5 a ton for its recyclable plastics and metal; the next-best bid asked the city to pay more than $67 a ton to remove the recyclables. That $72/ton gap is wide enough to be very interesting. What accounts for such a significant pricing difference? 9:38:21 AM    comment []  trackback []

Making Prices Work For The Environment Making Prices Work For The Environment - Environmental Fiscal Reform in Europe (Austria), Fiscal Reform Campaign, December 17th, 2002 The very well attended conference with experts from many different European Countries gave an overview of the development of 'green taxes' and the dismantling of environmentally counterproductive subsidies at EU-level and in some selected countries. The conference stressed environmental fiscal reform because this covers taxes, subsidies and other environmental incentives. Article [Source: Subsidy Watch] 9:22:29 AM    comment []  trackback []