No bottle deposit return scheme for most of UK until 2024 at earliest

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Scheme will not come into effect in England, Wales and Northern Ireland until at least six years after it was announced

A promised deposit return scheme for plastic bottles to cut marine pollution will not be in place in England, Wales and Northern Ireland until late 2024 at the earliest – six years after it was announced by government as a key environmental policy.

 

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Yeah, it's way cheaper to just leave them there....

No worries, go unrecycled Brits! dump millions of plastic bottles a day on your island, in any case thanks to seafarers, your garbage end up on the lap of Anatolia, where once upon a time civilizations were cradled- Lord Byron wld love this theme. 😏

Conservatives have failed the environment on pollution and tackling plastic debris ONLY Labour has an agenda to tackle Pollution and Dumping putting the health and well being of our green spaces first UKLabour

When I was a kid I used to go with my mates looking for the old pop bottles, getting the 3 old pennies return deposit was great, 1 Penny for a milk bottle. You never saw any old pop or milk bottles left on the streets, it served us kids very well.

In other countries they do it at supermarkets where you put the clean bottles in a machine and it prints out a voucher to be used in store. Much like the coin banks

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