Dorset Climate Action Network
  • Home
  • Donate
  • Newsletters
  • What Can I Do?
  • Campaigns
    • Dorset Deserves Better
    • Dorset Greener Open Homes
    • Dorchester Transport Action Group (DTAG)
    • Local Plan / CEES
    • No Oil
    • Great Big Dorset Hedge
    • Henry - Great Big Dorset Hedgehog
  • News
  • Contact
  • Local Groups
  • Teams
    • Advocacy Team
    • Energy Team
    • Land Use Team
    • Media & Comms Team
    • Questions Team
    • Transport Team
  • Funding
  • Members


Current  News

Deposit and Return Scheme - Message in a Bottle

25/6/2021

0 Comments

 
Dorset Litter Free, and many local groups around the County, have - during the last three years - contributed data about the number of bottles and cans that they have collected during litter drives, to evidence gathered by CPRE at national level.  This evidence is being used by CPRE to support a campaign to persuade the government to introduce a deposit and return scheme (DRS) for bottles and other containers.
On 19 June, Boris Johnson’s birthday CPRE delivered to 10 Downing Street a symbolic bottle containing the following message from 32,908 people calling for the introduction of a national DRS by 2023. 
 
“The country is ready and waiting to see a bottle return scheme of the sort already common in many other countries running here to cut plastic waste.  Many of us remember returning milk bottles when we were younger.  We call for the same system, where customers pay a small deposit which is refunded when the bottle is given back for reuse.

“The government originally committed to making a DRS happen in England back in 2018 – and we’re still waiting.  We’re tired of waiting for the government to make good on this announcement and fear that the recent consultation was a way for them to kick the can down the road and appease industry lobbyists.

“We want action on an all-in DRS, meaning that containers of all sizes and materials would be included.  Other countries that have this see sky-high recycling rates : in Germany, for example, people waste (discard or litter) an average of just over 21 containers a year, whereas in the UK we each waste 126 !
​
“We won’t stand by and let the government keep delaying this crucial litter-busting scheme.  We’ll be keeping up the pressure on them to dramatically cut plastic waste by making an all-in scheme happen by 2023.”
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    May 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    October 2021
    August 2021
    June 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021

    Categories

    All
    Activism
    Air Pollution
    BCP
    BCP Council
    Beaminster
    Beavers
    Bees
    Biodiversity
    Blackmore Vale
    Bridleways
    Bridport
    Call To Action
    CEE Bill
    CEE Strategy
    Climate Emergency UK
    Coastal Erosion
    COP26
    Corfe Castle
    Cornwall
    CPRE
    Deposit And Return Scheme
    Devon
    Dorset Council
    Dorset Local Plan
    Dorset National Park
    Dorset Wildlife Trust
    Doughnut Economics
    ECHR
    Energy Efficiency
    Environment Agency
    European Union
    Farming
    Festivals
    Flooding
    Fossil Fuels
    Gert Dorset Hedge
    Great Big Green Week
    Housing
    Incinerator
    Insects
    International
    IPCC
    Land Use Team
    Lewes
    Marnhull
    Meteorology
    National Grid
    Nature
    Oil Drilling
    Parish/Town Councils
    Pensions
    People's Assembly
    Pesticides
    Planet Purbeck
    Planning
    Plastics
    Polar Icecaps
    Portland
    Public Engagement
    Public Services
    Rivers
    Seas And Oceans
    Shaftesbury
    Solar Farms
    Stonehenge
    Stour Valley
    Tool
    Transport
    UK Developments
    UK Politics
    United Nations
    Whales And Dolphins
    Wildfires
    Wimborne
    Wind Energy
    Zero Carbon

    RSS Feed

  • Home
  • Donate
  • Newsletters
  • What Can I Do?
  • Campaigns
    • Dorset Deserves Better
    • Dorset Greener Open Homes
    • Dorchester Transport Action Group (DTAG)
    • Local Plan / CEES
    • No Oil
    • Great Big Dorset Hedge
    • Henry - Great Big Dorset Hedgehog
  • News
  • Contact
  • Local Groups
  • Teams
    • Advocacy Team
    • Energy Team
    • Land Use Team
    • Media & Comms Team
    • Questions Team
    • Transport Team
  • Funding
  • Members