UK needs bottle deposit scheme to cut plastic litter in oceans, says thinktank
by Sandra Laville from on (#2YBAR)
Green Alliance calls for making retailers take back bottles and cans to significantly reduce plastic pollution in seas
Plastic marine litter could be cut significantly if the government adopted a bottle deposit scheme as part of five key actions to tackle pollution of the oceans, a green thinktank has said.
The single most effective action to reduce plastic pollution in the seas would be a container return scheme along the lines of those run in large parts of Europe, north America and Australia, according to a new analysis by Green Alliance. In such schemes, a small tax is added to recyclable and reusable containers at the point of sale, which consumers can reclaim by returning them.
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