Media News - Wednesday, July 11, 2007
London council to ban free newspapers if they don’t recycle
Westminster City Council - which controls much of central London - has voted itself new powers last night which could ban the capital's two free newspapers from being distributed in the borough. According to the council - around 20 tonnes of free papers end up as street waste every week in Westminster, and it costs the borough £111,000 (EUR 164,065) a year to deal with rubbish. The publishers have been given one month to agree to ‘a voluntary scheme where they run their own cleaning operation to ensure their waste does not deface the streets’. If an agreement can’t be reached within the next month the council has said it will bring in new rules requiring the publishers to acquire a permit to distribute. (Press Gazette UK)
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