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UK households to be paid to return bottles & cans

A Deposit Return Scheme is set to go live in England & Northern Ireland in October 2027 for all drinks cans and plastic bottles larger than 150ml.

Not a moment too soon given the amount of them still blighting everywhere.

Between now and then, anything could happen and probably will !

Remember, we always used to do this.

#Recycling #SingleUsePlastic #DrinksCans #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #DepositReturnScheme

express.co.uk/news/uk/2050365/

Express.co.uk · UK households paid to bring bottles back to Tesco, Asda, Morrisons or Sainsbury’sBy Claire Schofield
Coffee to go

Performance presented at Performance Festival Perform now! Winterthur, Switzerland in 2015. After sewing a "trunk" made of lids for coffee-to-go cups the artist wandered around, stared at people, stopped in front of walls and eventually opened the trunk again to throw the lids on the floor. She then disappeared.

[Swaantje Güntzel, Coffee to go, 2025, Performance]

Foto: Wolfgang Probst

#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #performance #performancefestival #performnow #winterthur #switzerland #coffeetogo #singleuseplastic #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #swaantjeguentzel #swaantjegüntzel #wolfgangprobst
SEASCAPE I / Nordfrieslandmuseum Husum

This is the first work I produced within my ongoing series "SEASCAPES" in 2020.

Portrait staged in front of a seascape without title by Karl Rohwedder-Ruge (1865-1940), dated on the first third of the 20th century. The painting is part of the collection of Nordfriesland Museum. Nissenhaus Husum. The artist is surrounded by single use plastic items typically found in public space.

[Swaantje Güntzel, SEESTÜCK I / Nordfrieslandmuseum Husum, 2020, Diasec, 80 x 120 cm]

Foto: Henriette Pogoda

#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #nordfrieslandmuseum #husum #karlrohwedderruge #seestück #seestücke #seascape #seascapes #museum #collection #oilpainting #painting #paintings #northsea #nordsee #photography #fotografie #henriettepogoda #waste #marinedebris #littering #singleuseplastic #coffeetogo #takeaway #fastfood #müll #plasticbag #plastiktüte #plastikflasche #plasticbottle #swaantjeguentzel #swaantjegüntzel #strabd #beach #waves #wellen #einwegplastik #caprisonne #caprisun #durstlöscher #navydress #goldrahmen

When I was a kid, potato chips came in paper bags covered in foil. Single serving pudding came in tins. Pop came in cans or glass bottles. Milk came in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. Groceries were carried in paper bags.

In my lifetime, single use plastics has increased exponentially.

And now we each have enough microplastics in our brains to make a plastic spoon.
#plastic #PlasticPollution #SingleUsePlastic #pollution

bbc.com/news/articles/c4gwykzq

What a hero!

High time such plastic packaging reverted to that seen back in the 1970s and 1980s.

Metal tins were so much nicer and could easily be recycled from home without the need for a specialist processing centre.

It would be wonderful to see some of the old brands again too, rather than the 'Big 4' - Quality Street, Roses, Celebrations, & Heroes.

Teddy wears a white cable-knit jumper. He has short light brown hair. His arms are raised in triumph. He is in a warehouse full of thousands of sweet tubs, including Heroes, Quality Street, and Celebrations.
www.bbc.comNetley boy saves thousands of sweet tubs from landfillTeddy has collected the plastic confectionery tubs because he wants to help save the planet.

So why does #BigPlastic expect people to #recycle plastic?

There is no cost to just discarding #SingleUsePlastic, and there is a cost in time and effort of the consumer to get the plastic to a recycling center; there is a cost to sort waste to extract plastic from a waste stream to recycle it; there is a still intractable cost problem of clean plastic for recycling.

So maybe the first step is to reward consumers for returning single use plastics for recycling. Of course, how does one generate that reward? And how large does it have to be, and how easy does it have to be to claim it? And what is the impact on low income households? And how is that system designed and implemented?

Big Plastic is profitable BECAUSE they have a one way process - make, sell, and forget. No responsibility after the sale for the end of life impacts.

theguardian.com/environment/20

#PlasticPollution is a problem because #IndustryDeception is so common

The Guardian · Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’By Sandra Laville

“Recycling campaigns and greenwashing help plastic producers hide these facts from consumers. They make it harder for buyers to make smart and eco-friendly choices and for lawmakers to create fair and informed regulations.”

Explosive new report accuses major corporations of lying for decades: 'It's clearly fraud they're engaged in' flip.it/HpTLdg

The Cool Down · Explosive new report accuses major corporations of lying for decades: 'It's clearly fraud they're engaged in'Major plastic producers have known that recycling isn't a good solution for more than 30 years — they just lied about it.
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@whysheep All folks have to do is toss out the millions of existing Keurig machines and buy brand new ones... But I guess it's good for new customers to have a better option. Hopefully a third party will sell a conversion kit. An existing alternative is the third party coffee filter you can use your own coffee in, without being hosed on the price of Keurig branded pods. I've used one of these since weeks after buying my Keurig.