I may have missed something here but why is the onus always on the consumer and not the retailer. Surely charging us more to deal with their rubbish is well rubbish !!. Why are items that are plainly damaging to the environment outlawed, oh I know we can tax them and make some more money as was the case with carrier bags.
With regards to the deposit thing...
In Germany there is an 8c deposit on glass bottles and upto 25c on plastic ones. It works. It works to the extent that you see otherwise well dressed and presentable pensioners with their arms deep in bins rummaging for them Pfandflaschen. Maybe that is more a slight on the system that pensioners feel the need to dig through waste, but it does mean there are noticeably fewer bottles in the hedge rows.
Oh, and agree with the Alfa designer.
Currently in Italy and you don't see a single coffee to-go on offer. In sure they would scorn at the idea of coffee-on-the-go.
I've been using one of these for the past year, may not work for everyone but so far no coffee shop has refused to fill it and its better than a disposable cup to carry around. (mines actually several yrs old and good deal more worn but still work well)
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Some feeble excuses for laziness here. Don't go into junk food place. Take a flask and a butty box. Cheaper, better for the world and far more proletariat
Travelled Dumfries to Gretna a couple of times over the weekend and the trail of plastic bottles(some full of lorry drivers pith I suspect), pizza boxes etc is disgusting. Lay-bys littered with debris of all kinds. The bins may be full but why cannot people just take their junk home???????
Last weeks River Nith flood line was also littered with plastic of all kinds.....
