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Fri 11 Nov 2002Green Party wins reprieve for old punt notes from landfill sitesThe Central Bank has bowed to pressure from the Green Party to examine ways in which the old punt notes could be shredded, compacted and sold off as briquettes or sold as souvenirs.At present the punts are being dumped by the State in landfill sites.