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Paul Falvo was surfing novascotia.cbc.ca and sent you this CBC News story with the comment:
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MLA CALLS FOR FEES ON DISPOSABLE CUPS
HALIFAX - It's time to charge a five-cent fee on disposable drinking cups to help pay for litter cleanup, says a Nova Scotia Liberal MLA.
Michel Samson, the party's environment critic, says coffee cups and drinking containers litter ditches and sidewalks around the province.
Businesses such as Tim Hortons and other fast-food outlets have to start taking responsibility for their discarded products or the province will impose fees, says Samson. "These businesses are making significant profits and it's time for them to take action."
The minister of the environment, Ron Russell, dismisses the idea.
"If you start imposing a fee on every cup of coffee or
every container of fast food I think you'd have
one heck of a problem," he says.
The problem, according to Russell, is keeping track of every coffee or pop cup sold so the province can collect the fee.
Russell says his department wants to work with industry to come up with a more workable solution to the litter problem, including the use of more biodegradable cups and installing garbage cans along highways.
The idea of charging a deposit on fast-food cups first came up two years ago.
Staff at the Environment Department met with restaurant owners, retailers and manufacturers in March 2001 to discuss the idea, however, they ultimately dismissed it.
Politicians in P.E.I. have also rejected the idea of charging a deposit, or an anti-litter tax on coffee cups.
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MAKE HARBOUR REALLY CLEAN, COUNCILLORS URGE
Halifax regional councillors may improve the sewage treatment system planned for the harbour cleanup project.
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http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ns_harbourup20030625
CHARITIES REAP BENEFITS OF 'ELECTION BRIBE'
Those $155 cheques from the Nova Scotia government are proving to be an unexpected windfall for some charities.
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http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ns_chequechar20030624
N.S. PROTECTED AREA GETS BIGGER
An environmental group has secured protection for 868 more acres of the Tobeatic Wilderness Area in southwest Nova Scotia.
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http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ns_tobnature20030624
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