Recycling and What It Will Mean After Brexit

We’re all trying our best when it comes to recycling our household waste. In many areas, if we put the wrong item in the wrong bin, the council won’t collect it. That puts a lot of pressure on us as consumers to get it right every time. But is it fair to leave the responsibility of recycling entirely to us? Manufacturers and supermarkets play a major role in the amount and type of packaging we deal with daily. Shouldn’t they take more responsibility for making recycling easier and reducing unnecessary packaging in the first place? Recycling shouldn’t be a one-way effort—we all have a part to play, including the people who produce and sell what we buy.

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If they do not sit up and take notice this will be the effects!!

The UK could become a plastic dumping ground after Brexit, say campaigners and opposition MPs. Once it leaves the EU, the UK won’t need to follow Europe’s new waste and recycling rules. Many doubt the current government will create a strong, effective system to replace it.

Each week, UK consumers throw out millions of plastic bottles with no national plan to handle them properly. The EU is creating a “circular economy” plan to make manufacturers responsible for plastic waste. This plan will push companies to collect, recycle, and reduce plastic more efficiently. But the UK won’t need to follow that plan after Brexit.

Campaigners fear the UK will fall behind and dump more plastic into oceans and illegal sites. Javor Benedek from the EU warned the UK is already showing weak efforts on plastic waste. He says producers face little pressure to reduce waste or recycle more in the UK. Without stronger rules, more plastic will end up polluting nature and harming wildlife. Benedek warns the UK could become the “dirty man of Europe” when it comes to waste.

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