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Local Environmental Quality Minister Ben Bradshaw has launched for consultation proposals for recycling and composting targets for 2007/08. Mr Bradshaw stressed that the consultation would deal with targets for 2007/08 only. He confirmed that the current review of Waste Strategy 2000 would consider a longer term vision, looking more broadly …

Here is a perspective from one side of the fence for the plastic bag debate, which here continues in Quebec. A private member‘‘s bill introduced in the Quebec National Assembly is an intervention in search of a ‘‘problem‘‘. Bill 390 would prohibit plastic shopping bags that are non-biodegradable. What is …