Posted on 01/10/2018 7:04:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
Theresa May is to announce a war on plastic waste, with proposed policies including plastics-free aisles in supermarkets and a tax on takeaway containers.
The prime minister will set out her ambition to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste within 25 years in a major speech on Thursday in which she will promise the UK will lead internationally on environmental issues. But campaign groups said the aspirations would need to be backed up by legislation.
They also warned that leaving the EU risked weakening environmental protections, and called for the government to promise it would not water down green standards in exchange for rapid post-Brexit trade deals.
May’s speech, unveiling a much-heralded 25-year plan for the environment in England, drawn up by Michael Gove’s environment department with input from pressure groups, is expected to focus heavily on plastic waste, which she calls “one of the great environmental scourges of our time”.
As reported before the speech, May will promise to extend the hugely successful 5p levy on plastic bags to smaller shops, and seek evidence on a possible charge on single-use plastic containers such as takeaway boxes. …
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“The prime minister will set out her ambition to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste within 25 years in a major speech on Thursday.”
So she will have an ample supply when she has a much needed “plastic surgery” on that honker she has!
Just like the Democrats here...go demagogue fake problems, because they don’t want to touch anything real.
Sounds like my G-Grandfather’s general store. Wooden cabinetry with wood and glass shelves, Products in glass and metal containers. Of course that was in the 20’s.
That’s about it evidently.
Britain has a uniparty, too...
First-world problem.
Glass is a major problem. It’s heavy. It breaks.
Sealing it isn’t as easy either.
Then you can get glass particulate matter in your food.
A very small crack in a seam may not show up, but your food could be contaminated due to it.
In automated systems, I’m not sure it works as well.
Its cost is probably a lot higher as well.
“There they will continue to enjoy the finest foods and most advanced gadgets the world has to offer...while deciding your fate for you.”
I expect that Nazi bitches like May would be the first dragged into the streets and hanged from lampposts. Haven’t seen any evidence of that yet, except during the Libyan civil war in 2011; however, my hopes remain high.
I’d say I wish I shared your optimism, but optimism just doesn’t seem to be the right word.
I don’t know...grocery aisle with no plastic could work....
In some alternative universe...
I am surprised Jerry Brown didn’t think of it first....
First, they came for our pull-tabs, but I don’t drink from cans, so I said nothing...
Another idea that is so good it needs the LAW to make it work.
That is because we common folk are so ignorant that we won’t do what is ‘Good For Us’.
Nanny State to the rescue.
The biggest blunder of Hitler was declaring war on America because beyond that, I see no reason why ANY American blood should have been shed for the likes of once “great” Britain.
We’ll be managing our forests again, so paper bags for EVERYONE!!!
So you’re suggesting we ought to have been allied with Hitler?
I use glass containers for my storage and leftovers. I will not store my food in plastic containers. You can even buy glass bottles from Amazon for beverages.
We don’t need plastic-free aisles in supermarkets. We need plastics. What needs to be done is to add additives to the plastics during manufacturing to become biodegradable. Then when these biodegradable plastics are dumped into landfills, they degrade and produce methane and other gases which can be mined for fuel purposes to generate electricity. This solution is so easy, avoiding the high costs of recycling (only a fraction of current plastics are cheaply recyclable), and makes goldmines out of landfills.
Because this is the greatest single crisis of our time./s
Seriously, you would think that Europeans would be more concerned with the young women getting raped by refugees.
On topic: We’ve got to be more creative with our disposables. I am a reporter and once wrote a story about how Sweden has incinerators in their apartment buildings. The incinerators create energy for electricity and disposes of waste at the same time.
In North America, there is just so much land that landfills abound. That doesn’t have to be the case.
Cracks me up. I remember plastic bags being touted as tree savers! Lol will the busy bodies EVER run out of things to get apoplectic about? Nah. Probably not.
Obviously, cloth bags that will carry all sorts of germs home.
And of course, these bags must be sewn at home. By hand; no sewing machines allowed. LOL!
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