New York State has a responsibility to encourage recycling of resources, such as landfill gas.

Some ways that states encourage recycling of specific drink containers is by passing a bottle bill.

A recent California law, designed to encourage recycling, involves no deposit but gives consumers a penny per container turned in.

Tesco is also looking at other ways to encourage recycling.

Instead of passing a law, Florida is allowing other pressures to encourage recycling.

The purpose behind this system is to discourage waste generation and to encourage recycling.

If to encourage recycling, should it not reflect the relative cost to industry of switching from virgin to recycled materials?

A directive intended to encourage recycling has ended up encouraging fly-tipping.

A 1972 law authorized a $166.8 million bond issue for "resource management systems"; only $3.2 million went to encourage recycling.

But delivering an immediate reward that encourages such recycling is not as easy in states without deposit laws.