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Pre-Budget Report: Environmental measures
There was little in the pre-Budget report to please environmental campaigners.
The chancellor revealed a slight rise in the landfill levy, which aims to encourage recycling by making the tipping of waste more expensive.
The levy is to rise by £3 per tonne per year from 2005/06.
Gordon Brown said the move would be "revenue neutral".
There was also a pledge to reduce by 20p per litre the duty rate for bioethanol road fuel.
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