The Environmental Audit Committee publishes the Government response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s report, Plastic Bottles: Turning Back the Plastic Tide.
- Download the Government response: Plastic bottles: Turning Back the Plastic Tide (PDF 174 KB)
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- Environmental Audit Committee
The Government has not adequately acted upon, or responded to, the Committee’s recommendations on deposit return schemes and producer responsibility obligations.
Chair comments on Government response
Environmental Audit Committee Chair, Mary Creagh MP:
“My Committee was shocked to find that the UK unnecessarily uses over 7 billion plastic water bottles every year. “The Government needs to do much more to combat plastic pollution. Premises serving food or drink should be legally obliged to provide free drinking water. Producers, not the taxpayer, should pay for costs of recovering hard to recycle packaging. A UK-wide deposit return scheme is a crucial next step to turn back the plastic tide.”
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