WASTE MGMT: "Council plan for $2 levy to pick up your butts"

AdelaideNow.com.au
6 October 2008

A METROPOLITAN council wants smokers to pay a $2 levy to help cover the clean-up costs of discarded butts.
The council says the State Government should impose the levy on every packet of cigarettes.

It will seek support from the state's other councils at the Local Government Association's annual general meeting on October 24. Councils spend between $1 million and $2 million each year cleaning up litter, which included cigarette butts...

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