Clean-up taxes
Dublin Ireland is planning to bring in
clean-up taxes
on chewing gum, polystyrene fast food wrappers and bank cash machine receipts that have all become major environmental problems, the government announced yesterday
Announcing the plan, Environment Minister Martin Cullen told Irish state radio: "I feel we have to have a polluter- pays principle on this where the people who use chewing gum should pay a small tax. Hopefully it might change people's habits as well.''