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.
Mays speech, unveiling a much-heralded 25-year plan for the environment in England, drawn up by Michael Goves 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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Sounds so nice.
So what do we use instead?
Don’t just stand there, hold out your hands.
Paper bags, the cardboard boxes their shipments come in....just like the saner good ole days.
(The Northeast has a tree every square foot)
Bring in the competitor's plastic bags, with their logo proudly emblazoned on the side.
I don’t need to tell you where their heads are at.
LOL
Fewer $$$ in your pocket.
LOL
That’s about it...
LOL
Wasn’t she talking about plastic containers for food, shampoo, and a myriad of other items?
Just take everything that is normally in plastic and mix it all together in one large vat. Then everyone can come by and fill their tin cup up whenever they need something. Of course, it may not look or taste appetizing, but ... hey! What do you peasants expect.
Take all the swill that you want, but eat all the swill that you take! It's all the swill you can eat!
Not exclusively.
>>May will promise to extend the hugely successful 5p levy on plastic bags<<
Yes, those bag charges are just one more way of squeezing money out of consumers. It’s like the California soda bottle charge, 10 cents per unit.
They make a ton of money off this, and I don’t think it goes to help anything related to the bottles.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
No, you're not.
In Maine, they put a dollar tax on a car battery, and a tax on appliances, although they do absolutely nothing to stockpile nor recycle either category.
However, I can say at least the returnable bottle tax encourages people to gather them up and turn them in for cash.
I’m not convinced that they do though. Perhaps some folks do.
Are you kidding me?
You can see them walking the ditches picking up cans and bottles. And in Portlsand.....pro-dumpster divers.
“Blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop-top, cut my heel had to cruise on back home...”
Had it been 20 years later it never would have been written.
Do you take yours to a redemption center?
Sure.
There is a large facility in the area that takes in tractor trailer loads of cans and bottles from all over the state and processes them.
It’s like a big factory that has conveyor belts, crushers, front end loaders, yard trucks and other interesting gear. They have huge piles of pulverized glass outside, heaped up by loaders.
The place stinks to high heaven of stale beer.
They’re the good one. LOL
It would cost me more in gas money to deliver them for a refund. I haven’t turned in cans or plastic since the 70s.
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