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Offline rangerrebew

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UK to Ban Plastic Spoons
« on: January 21, 2023, 03:05:50 pm »

UK to Ban Plastic Spoons
8 hours ago Kip Hansen 42 Comments
News Brief & Commentary by Kip Hansen — 21 January 2022

This coming October, the UK intends to “ban several single-use plastic items, including cutlery and plates”.

“The European Union approved a ban on single-use plastic items in 2018, which went into effect three years later.[2021] England’s neighbors, Scotland and Wales, each banned a similar list of items last year.”

“Rebecca Pow, an environment minister, said in a statement, “Plastic is a scourge which blights our streets and beautiful countryside, and I am determined that we shift away from a single-use culture.””

“Steve Hynd, policy manager at City to Sea, an environmental organization based in Bristol, said the ban was welcomed but “these are very much minimum agreed standards.”

“The ban will help England catch up with other countries that already implemented similar bans years ago,” he said. “But for England to be true ‘global leaders’ in tackling plastic pollution like this government claims to be, we need them to go much further.””

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/20/uk-to-ban-plastic-spoons/
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Re: UK to Ban Plastic Spoons
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2023, 03:07:38 pm »
 :facepalm2:

The problem is governments seek some quick fix which usually does little but is used as propaganda.
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Re: UK to Ban Plastic Spoons
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2023, 03:40:32 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on January 21, 2023, 03:05:50 pm
“Rebecca Pow, an environment minister, said in a statement, “Plastic is a scourge which blights our streets and beautiful countryside, and I am determined that we shift away from a single-use culture.””

Then stop littering.  And either recycle your plastic or bury it, keeping that carbon locked up underground for the next thousand years.
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Re: UK to Ban Plastic Spoons
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2023, 04:34:01 pm »
Here's a crazy thought, if people in the UK are incapable of disposing/recycling plastic cutlery properly why not just force them to pay up for biodegradable ones? I mean isn't that the proper fascist way to deal with the problem?
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Re: UK to Ban Plastic Spoons
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2023, 05:11:38 pm »
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Does the UK ban also include diapers and maxi-pads? ... speaking of single-use plastic products.
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Re: UK to Ban Plastic Spoons
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2023, 05:21:33 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on January 21, 2023, 04:34:01 pm
why not just force them to pay up for biodegradable ones? I mean isn't that the proper fascist way to deal with the problem?

Yes, let's force them to use biodegradable spoons.  That way, instead of locking up that carbon in a landfill for the next thousand years, we will push for a method that returns that carbon to the atmosphere as quickly as possible.

Idiots.
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Re: UK to Ban Plastic Spoons
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2023, 05:24:51 pm »
Fork 'em.
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