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Theresa May proposes plastic-free supermarket aisles in green strategy
Manchester Guardian ^ | Wed 10 Jan ‘18 17.30 EST | Peter Walker

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; doomage; envirowackos; eussr; plasticfree; plasticwaste; redtory; theresamay
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To: Olog-hai

“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!


21 posted on 01/10/2018 7:15:25 PM PST by vette6387
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To: tennmountainman

Just like the Democrats here...go demagogue fake problems, because they don’t want to touch anything real.


22 posted on 01/10/2018 7:17:18 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: DoughtyOne

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.


23 posted on 01/10/2018 7:18:52 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

That’s about it evidently.


24 posted on 01/10/2018 7:19:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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To: Olog-hai

Britain has a uniparty, too...


25 posted on 01/10/2018 7:19:21 PM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Olog-hai

First-world problem.


26 posted on 01/10/2018 7:24:13 PM PST by OKSooner (Joan Rivers, RIP)
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To: rockrr

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.


27 posted on 01/10/2018 7:24:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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To: BenLurkin

“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.


28 posted on 01/10/2018 7:24:34 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: sergeantdave

I’d say I wish I shared your optimism, but optimism just doesn’t seem to be the right word.


29 posted on 01/10/2018 7:26:20 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

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....


30 posted on 01/10/2018 7:26:48 PM PST by Popman (My sin was great, Your love was greater  What could separate us now…)
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To: Olog-hai

First, they came for our pull-tabs, but I don’t drink from cans, so I said nothing...


31 posted on 01/10/2018 7:28:14 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Olog-hai
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..

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.

32 posted on 01/10/2018 7:35:03 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


33 posted on 01/10/2018 7:38:01 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Olog-hai

We’ll be managing our forests again, so paper bags for EVERYONE!!!


34 posted on 01/10/2018 7:39:01 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King!)
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To: shanover

So you’re suggesting we ought to have been allied with Hitler?


35 posted on 01/10/2018 7:43:37 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DoughtyOne

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.


36 posted on 01/10/2018 7:45:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (God Bless Attorney General Jeff Sessions! Thank You!)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


37 posted on 01/10/2018 7:49:22 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Olog-hai

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.


38 posted on 01/10/2018 7:52:37 PM PST by proud American in Canada
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To: Olog-hai

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.


39 posted on 01/10/2018 7:59:52 PM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: Parmy; All
Now, plastic is bad. What will be the ramifications of this idiocy?

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!

40 posted on 01/10/2018 8:01:28 PM PST by proud American in Canada
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