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Plastic waste is one of the scourges of our time – let’s clean up
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PLASTIC waste is one of the scourges of our time.
Britain uses 14billion drink bottles a year. Far too many never get recycled.
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They are wrongly sent to landfill or, worse, discarded on our streets and in the countryside. Some find their way into streams, rivers and the ocean.
We must put a stop to it.
A deposit return scheme, which Britain had in the 1960s and still works well abroad, is long overdue a comeback.
Friends of the Earth believe a cash incentive to return plastic bottles to shops for recycling could hugely benefit our environment. We agree.
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The biggest culprits are the small single-use ones many of us carry on the go.
Let’s start with those. If that works, expand the offer.
The Government has considered such a scheme for years. Time to get on with it.
Year for heroes
IT’S natural to feel bleak about the last year. Covid has hit us hard, kids perhaps most of all.
But for all the suffering and setbacks it also brought out the best in Britain.
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Think of those frontline workers who had no option to stay at home. The NHS and emergency services, our binmen, postal workers and delivery drivers. All those who kept essential shops running.
We owe them our thanks.
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And, even as we mourn our 126,000 victims, let us thank too the brilliant Brits who within months invented safe and miraculously effective vaccines.
They did so against all the odds — and critics who said it was impossible.
But for them we would be facing a future without hope . . . not a summer liberation.
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