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The U.S. city of Seattle is introducing a to fine people who waste food. The city, in the USA's , will begin issuing on January the 1st and then start fining people six later on July the 1st. People will get a $1 fine if than 10 per cent of their garbage is food. Businesses will get a $50 fine. City want to reduce the of food that people and businesses waste. Americans waste around 40 per cent of the food they buy. The city hopes its new fines will bring this down. Seattle aims to increase the amount of waste it recycles from the level of 56 per cent to 60 per cent. It has also become the second U.S. city to make composting .

The Seattle Public Utilities department said the new garbage system should make people more that recycling is important. City official Tim Croll told the 'Seattle Times' newspaper that the programme would not make any . He said: "The isn't to raise revenue. We care more about reminding people to separate their ." He added that he thinks the fines system will be a success and said he didn't expect to collect a lot of money in . It will be up to garbage to decide if a house or gets a fine. The collectors will look inside garbage to see how much food waste they contain. They can then add $1 or $50 to the next garbage .

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