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Green living: Do you recycle and/or compost? - Point of View

Green living: Do you recycle and/or compost?

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Quebec is introducing measures to cut household trash and divert organic waste currently dumped in landfills.


The province's Liberal government wants to ban "green" and recyclable waste from landfills within a decade, starting with paper and cardboard by 2013.


This would help Quebecers achieve the government's other green goal: to cut average household waste to 700 kilograms per year from 810.


Organic waste will be diverted to yet-to-be-built composting centres around the province, Environment Minister Line Beauchamp said Monday in announcing the new trash plan.

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Do you recycle or compost? If not, would measures like these get you to start? Do you think the Quebec government's plan is a good one?