Lincolnshire<\/a> Waste Partnership meeting on Tuesday (June 24) as the plans were discussed.<\/p>\nCoun Richard Wright, leader of the county council\u2019s Conservative group, said: \u201cThese legislation changes are absolute tosh, and the deposit return scheme is a farce.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so full of holes it\u2019s unbelievable.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s supposed to lead to a cleaner environment and carbon reduction, but anyone can be a collection point meaning everyone will want it for the financial return.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere could be lorries going up and down the country to every shop. I just don\u2019t see the common sense, and the fact it\u2019s missed out glass is a travesty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coun Rhys Baker (Ind) described a council report on the law as \u2018making a silk purse out of a pig\u2019s ear\u2019.<\/p>\n
The government claims that 6.5 billion single-use cans and bottles end up as waste each year \u2013 equivalent to 17 million each day.<\/p>\n
Anyone who cleans up their community will also be able to earn money from other people\u2019s thrown-away bottles.<\/p>\n
When the scheme was announced Circular Economy Minister Mary Creagh (Lab) described how the scheme would clean up Britain and end the throwaway society.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThis is a vital step as we stop the avalanche of rubbish that is filling up our streets, rivers and oceans and protect our treasured wildlife.<\/p>\n
\u201cTurning trash into cash also delivers on our Plan for Change by kickstarting clean growth, ensuring economic stability, more resilient supply chains, and new green jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Government is also mandating that all councils offer food waste collection from next year, with paper and card also being rolled out.<\/p>\n
City of Lincoln Council recently announced plans to postpone introducing the new paper collection by at least two years, saying there is already pressure on local services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to add a recycling charge to drinks bottles and cans has been labelled \u2018absolute tosh\u2019 The scheme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[84404,728,609,35985,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-211758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-all-lincolnshire-news","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-lincs-homepage","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114741199760386109","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}