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Bill: National Recycling Act of 2079
Details
Submitted by[?]: Proletariat Revolution Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2080
Description[?]:
| While employing a mandatory scheme may be unfavourable at first, it will in the long term help to reduce the amount of garbage produced by all sectors of society and the economy. There will be a gradual scheme in place to ensure that people are burdened by the new program. Residents will have a year within the ratification of this act, to follow the new recycling scheme. They will be issued different boxes to help with their sorting by the city. Blue will be for cans, plastic and glass. Grey will be for paper and cardboard. [optional] Green will be for lawn clippings, leaves, branches, weeds, plants and any biodegradable household leftovers (such as coffee grounds). Black will be for household chemical products. Everything else will be free to be thrown into regular garbage bags and left in rubbish bins (to make collection easier for the city crews). Residents who fail to follow the rule change at the year's end will result in a $100 fine for the first offence and $150 for every subsequent offence. The industrial, enterprise and commercial sectors will have a similar scheme but unlike residential areas, if they fail to adhere to the rule of the law, they will face steep fines for imposing on the safety of the environment. They face fines from $200,000 up to and over $240,000,000. A residing justice may decide to impose a higher fine if the company is a repeat offender. They too will have a year following the ratification of this bill to adapt their policies to fit within the framework of the government policy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: The government funds recycling facilities for public use.
Current: Local governments decide about this.
Proposed: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:43:45, July 12, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the National Recycling Act of 2079 |
| Message | This is to make companies more accountable. I may remove the clause for the residents about fines, or I'll lower it depending on how this debate goes. I, however, don't think it should be higher. |
| Date | 12:18:48, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the National Recycling Act of 2079 |
| Message | "Green will be for lawn clippings, leaves, branches, weeds and plants." Why force recycling of things as trivial as these? These can do no harm to the enviroment. |
| Date | 15:19:54, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the National Recycling Act of 2079 |
| Message | Fine, I'll take it out....picky, picky... I, however, included it so that they aren't thrown out to increase the amount of garbage taken to the dump... |
| Date | 19:36:52, July 13, 2005 CET | From | Edelweiss Party | To | Debating the National Recycling Act of 2079 |
| Message | We agree with this one. |
| Date | 07:25:31, July 15, 2005 CET | From | People's Party | To | Debating the National Recycling Act of 2079 |
| Message | Fines of $240,000 for dumping garbage in your own backyard? This is not about the environment, its just extortion. There is no way those levels of fines are proportionate to any damage to the environment. By destoying small businesses (even large ones) you destroying work and job growth. Why should millions of families across the nation suffer because you're more interested in protecting some insect? Local areas are already empowered with the right to decide their environmental policies. As such they can set beforehand their own recycling policies as weel as arbitrate where the waste goes. Furthermore this will affect private recycling efforts, as the govt will drive out any private players in the industry. All in all, this a disastrous piece of legislation |
| Date | 15:09:32, July 15, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the National Recycling Act of 2079 |
| Message | They have a transitional period to help then shift their practices and policies. And no, it's protect the whole environment. This is to make sure that everyone, even in the cities can enjoy something of a decent environment. This will go along side with our moderate pollution controls. This is just an anti-dumping law; many countries have this kind of thing. |
| Date | 15:25:15, July 16, 2005 CET | From | People's Party | To | Debating the National Recycling Act of 2079 |
| Message | But not with such excessive fines... Let businesses pay cleanup costs and allow them to privately contract for it... whoever heard of $250 million to clean u some trash? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 287 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 38 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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