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Reducing Consumption

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CalRecycle Programs and Services

• Beyond Waste Prevention: Guides and resources to living simply.

CalRecycle Publications

CalRecycle has hundreds of publications on waste reduction, too many to list here.  Please visit our publication search page and search on the word, reduction.

Other Resources

Documents

• Incentives
  • Tax Reduces Use of Plastic Bags in Ireland—Sky News, August 21, 2002. A tax on the free plastic bags given away in supermarkets has cut the number of bags in use by 90 percent since it was introduced at the beginning of March, according to the government's environment department. Shoppers must pay 15 cents per bag, and the $3.4 million paid since March is to be spent on environmental and waste-management projects. The tax is expected to result in a billion fewer bags in circulation this year. 
  • United Kingdom Considers Tax on Plastic Shopping Bags—Guardian Unlimited, August 20, 2002.
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