Good News Recycling - Incentive v taxation = benefit not burden
I was most pleased to see the midday news today, where there was an article informing about a recycling bins "incentive" scheme which gives out vouchers to residents who recycle and the dropping off of the taxation scheme for recycling.
My own similar scheme suggested a return to householders by way of their community charge, but vouchers is an acceptable modification as an incentive.
Rubbish is put out on the street for free and is potentially a cash cow industry which should be promulgated for the common good in society, but also with an incentive to engage society.
An interesting newspaper article on the subject is:
Published in Letsrecycle.com, Council News of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead on 7 June 2010 entitled "Government to spell out recycling incentives policy" (Click Here)
On an unrelated topic: another idea of mine that I tried to get off the ground a few years ago by writing to several oranisations for them to chat about at committee level was:
Loyalty Cards - quite often you have a number of loyalty schemes in your purse with a small number of points on each of them, not enough to buy something you want or perhaps only a very small item. With the recession biting and hitting the third sector in relation to funding and funding crisis, I pondered and thought what about companies that operate loyalty card schemes such as Boots Advantage Card or Nectar etc, organising to allow charities to have a card whereby lots of individual users could transfer their points to a charity card (particularly for small grassroots charties) to purchase larger items such as TV's or smaller items for tombola and raffles, or even for specific one off assistance to group members for example the homeless. A few loyalty points on a lot of cards could value add up to a large amount of benefit to cash strapped local based charties to buy TV's, music equipment, projectors and office supplies and bring out the altruist in folks who may not need the points for themselves per se. Just a thought ... what does it take to make it happen? How big could the benefit be? How much of a difference could it potentially make to a small group of people?
My own similar scheme suggested a return to householders by way of their community charge, but vouchers is an acceptable modification as an incentive.
Rubbish is put out on the street for free and is potentially a cash cow industry which should be promulgated for the common good in society, but also with an incentive to engage society.
An interesting newspaper article on the subject is:
Published in Letsrecycle.com, Council News of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead on 7 June 2010 entitled "Government to spell out recycling incentives policy" (Click Here)
On an unrelated topic: another idea of mine that I tried to get off the ground a few years ago by writing to several oranisations for them to chat about at committee level was:
Loyalty Cards - quite often you have a number of loyalty schemes in your purse with a small number of points on each of them, not enough to buy something you want or perhaps only a very small item. With the recession biting and hitting the third sector in relation to funding and funding crisis, I pondered and thought what about companies that operate loyalty card schemes such as Boots Advantage Card or Nectar etc, organising to allow charities to have a card whereby lots of individual users could transfer their points to a charity card (particularly for small grassroots charties) to purchase larger items such as TV's or smaller items for tombola and raffles, or even for specific one off assistance to group members for example the homeless. A few loyalty points on a lot of cards could value add up to a large amount of benefit to cash strapped local based charties to buy TV's, music equipment, projectors and office supplies and bring out the altruist in folks who may not need the points for themselves per se. Just a thought ... what does it take to make it happen? How big could the benefit be? How much of a difference could it potentially make to a small group of people?
posted by Lesley McDade at 10:12 pm
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