‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass

16 comments

1. Labour will change it

   I’m placing all my bets on labour being the miracle for the UK because conservatives will follow their same old frugle approach

   And the next few decades need investment and borrowing to grow gdp with AI and robotics radically evolving industry and supply chains we would be left behind without another approach

   So they’ll be on a spending spree.

   Fortunately for them they can be more liberal in their agenda as 13 or so years of conservatives have mentally scared the majority. They don’t have to pander for votes as excessively.

2. Good, I didn’t like the fact I’d be punished for taking my rubbish home to recycle it just because other lazy gits don’t

3. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/deposit-return-scheme-for-drinks-containers-policy-statements/deposit-return-scheme-for-drinks-containers-joint-policy-statement

   Still a complete avoidance of the topic of how this affects existing kerbside collection.
   There’s some suggestion that online retailers would have to collect bottles when they do a delivery, which means having to have them ready to go when they turn up, rather than being able to put them in the wheelie bin whenever.

4. Hopefully we could have something like the Norwegian scheme where you return bottles through a reverse vending machine where if you press one button you get your deposit back, or if you press the other you donate the deposit to the Red Cross in exchange for being entered into a lottery with some pretty nice maximum cash prizes.

   Alternatively, many schools or local sports teams have regular recycling collections for bottles which go to pay for trips or away games.

   Either way, so many fewer bottles lying around than over here.

5. Oh man I didn’t even know this was being considered here. I’ve got a wood store absolutely full of glass bottles, so I’ll be a millionaire if this goes through

6. > The environment minister Robbie Moore told parliament on Wednesday that the scheme would not include glass because glass recycling would “create undue complexity for the drinks industry and it increases storage and handling costs for retailers”.

   They literally made this problem. It’s on them to be part of the solution!

7. Are they going to make it so council collections count your empties and give you the money or is it just going to make recycling more inconvenient?

8. let’s drive our cars to deposit them at bottle banks. We have recycling bins no? money grab and a piss take.

9. This is a solution looking for a problem. As I understand it, we are planning on throwing out the entire plastic, glass and can recycling scheme, because a small amount of single use bottles get thrown away in parks. Meanwhile the rest of the plastic and metal we recycle will still be collected the same way, so there is an massive increase in inefficiency for a tiny benefit.

   The plastic bottles that need targeted are the “meal deal” bottles from supermarkets. A far better scheme would be to target these drinks bottles for a bottle return scheme and leave the bottles that are intended for use at home, which are far more likely to be recycled, alone. Easy to do as well, any plastic bottle under 501ml sold on its own is subject to the bottle return scheme, anything else is exempt.

10. Ngl is it feasible if you don’t have a car like me to be able to recycle your bottles?

11. What policies have actually gone through?

    All you ever see is delayed, watered down, shelved. They have a majority. Wtf

12. Have a look at r/ireland to see how fucked up it can be.

13. I am glad that the labours are trying to fix the environment; I fully support them.

14. I understand that more will be recycled overall but why do those of us who already recycle have to be inconvenienced ughh

15. I don’t think I have any disappointment left to be honest, Ive used it all up these past 7 years.

16. Huge disappointment? Seal of approval more like. The council already collects my glass and plastic bottles for recycling every week from in front of my house. Why do we want to mess with that excellent system?