Labour push forward plans for a scheme for shoppers to pay a deposit on plastic bottles and cans to reduce litter and pollution

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1. Well done Labour. This is brilliant, and fantastic news. So glad Westminster is leading the way and showing wee and poor Scotland how to set up a DRS. Thank you Unionists.

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   Meanwhile Lorna Slater

3. Good, I really need the motivation to stop drinking fuzzy drinks again!

4. Give us the machines at shopping parades and supermarkets like they’ve had in the Nordics for 10 years please: pop the recycling in, reads barcode, press button, get a QR/ barcode with a value for the recycling.

5. No doubt it will be a carbon copy of the one the Scots gov proposed and it’ll be celebrated as a major Labour win in the war against waste after labour launch it in about 3 years, way over budget and very very late

6. Hurry up and give us it then fuckers. We need some serious effort to tackle littering without all the political theatre just so Labour can say they’re the ones who got the win.

7. Hammer to crack a nut, unfortunately.
   I was against the failed Scottish DRS and against this for the same reason.

   If you buy a 24 pack of cans beer/fizzy juice, you bring them home to drink in your own house.
   You are going to put the empties in the recycling bin as no councils offer regular enough general rubbish to not do it.
   But now with the DRS scheme you will have to bag up all your cans and DRIVE to a return location and scan them all in individually otherwise face a financial penalty. Given the number of cans sold in the UK each year how many returns machines is each supermarket to have to avoid lengthy queues to return?!
   This just seems like an additional shadow tax for people who recycle at home for no food reason.

   I could get behind the DRS if it was on containers sold individually only. Then that would help incentivise people to just not litter and to recycle.
   Or I could even be indifferent to it if there was some option to drop cans off in bulk without having to scan each individual can at drop off.

   I have no objections to recycling, I already do it!
   I just object to a scheme that is just going to cause people who already recycle a massive pain in the backside.

8. There’s already one at our Aldi, it’s been there a year already but never been opened, just sitting in the car park, waiting to pounce on your Guinness cans.

9. I have a tin bin and a glass bin at home, the council empties them about every 3rd/4th week.

   I don’t want to have to save my dog food tins, I don’t want to have to carry them back to a shop, I don’t want to have to carry my pasta or curry jars back to a shop either.

   I understand fully that litter is pretty bad but I don’t think this is the correct solution and I hate how it is being forced out.

10. Isn’t this just going to be in England, or are they going to impose in UK-wide?

    Also, why the hell is glass not included? Might cut down on all the smashed bottles on the streets.

11. They won’t do that in this country they can’t stand the thought of ordinary people being given something back. Maybe they will tax the return of the bottle.

12. Ok, so this is a good initiative, but why should it be on the shoppers expense? The profit is made by the corporations selling their goods and it’s their choice to use these plastic packages, because it’s good for marketing and again for them to make money.

13. Hurray, more hassle.

    I really need more hassle in my life. More minor annoyances. More time wasting. And this will totally save the planet compared to using the special plastic recycling bin I have at home (you know, the new one they gave me last year, specifically for plastic containers).

14. Or just ban water in plastic bottles – and ensure we’ve plenty of hygienic public drinking fountains.

    But they always go with the Tax option, rather than seeing as being anti-business. We’ve no real need to buy water in plastic bottles in our shops.

    In Japan they don’t have public bins.. Just recycling bins – and they are few and far between. But there’s no way anywhere in the UK is ready for that.. Probably never will be either.

15. It’s so frustrating for those of us who already diligently recycle, we’re going to be inconvenienced even more because of the few who don’t care.

16. Finally.

    Growing up in california this was always a thing and a good way for kids to make some quick money.

    Eventually became an illegal immigrant job but there’s never any bottles anywhere.

    Literally no downsides
    Until the tory rags try and spin it

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