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Andrew Dickens: Greens' rubbish response too simplistic

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Students rebel against digital NCEA exam that requires new laptops Funny old weekend where I flirted with getting sick. I was hot and cold and sneezy and not quite with it. I thought it had passed when I heard something and I thought I was still a bit under the weather.I’m pretty sure I heard someone saying that they’re going to clean up the country by making it more expensive to take rubbish to the dump. So I stopped for a moment. Cleared my ears and listened again, and to my surprise, realise I had heard what I had heard.Green MP and Associate Minister for the Environment, Eugenie Sage was announcing a new policy on waste, at the Party's annual conference, which has been signed off by Cabinet.The goal is to reduce the amount of rubbish going to landfills in New Zealand, as the amount of waste at landfills increases worldwide. So the public will be asked whether they think the current levy of $10 per tonne on waste taken to landfills, should be higher. And as only 11 per cent of landfills are presently cover