How many people today grab a takeaway coffee cup from the local cafe to drink on the go? We don’t know, but the number must be enormous.. Most every one of the above have a plastic top that will last 100s of years. Some cafes still use plastic cups that last a similar time. Is 10 minutes of coffee worth 100s of years of trash?
These items can be seen littering our gutters and on our streets all over the place. If they were all cardboard, they would still be littered, but they would, at least, be gone in a short time.
They do not need to be made of plastic.
On the way home from the gym last week, a distance of about 1 km (1/2 mile), I counted the items of plastic litter on the curb as I walked. In that short distance I counted 63 pieces of plastic litter. Plastic drink bottles, bottle tops, candy wrappers, plastic film, polystyrene fragments etc. That seemed to be a lot to me. I guess it is a generational thing. Our parents would have been horrified to see that amount, whereas it seems to go unnoticed by our youth of today. In another 20 years how many pieces will there be on this stretch, -- 200? What will today’s youth think of that new amount then when they are older? Will their children be so readily accepting of a higher amount of litter? UK sets base fee for plastic packaging under EPR scheme – UK
Posted on July 1, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingThe administrator for the UK’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme has published the base fees for the 2025/2026 year.Called PackUK, the administrator will pass on the cost of recycling packaging to converters, producers, and suppliers, following the ‘polluter pays’ principle.…
Source: UK sets base fee for plastic packaging under EPR scheme | Sustainable Plastics
Called PackUK, the administrator will pass on the cost of recycling packaging to converters, producers, and suppliers, following the ‘polluter pays’ principle.
The base fee for plastic packaging has been set at GBP 423 (€494) per tonne.
Modulated fees from 2026
From the second year of the EPR scheme—2026 to 2027— PackUK will introduce modulated fees to encourage producers to shift to more sustainable packaging design, using recyclability as the indicator.
Packaging which will be subject to higher or lower modulated fees will be based on recyclability assessments in line with a Recyclability Assessment Methodology (RAM). All materials will be assigned a rating of red, amber, or green under the RAM, with red being the least recyclable and green being the most recyclable.
Who is going to decide what is recyclable?
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