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

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

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