An Assembly GOP plan to improve recycling in Wisconsin was endorsed Friday by the state chamber of commerce. Repeal the statewide mandate on materials banned from landfills, and require the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to develop a model local recycling ordinance. Direct DNR to provide recycling grants to the Wheelchair Recycling Project to establish an operation in Milwaukee. The plan requires no new taxes. Recycling had been funded by a temporary tax on businesses, which has lapsed.
Local government ought to be able to experiment within the boundaries of a local model ordinance.
This is the right way to go for the environment and taxpayers.