According to the British "Times" reported December 19, 2017, the British Environment Minister Michael Gove (Michael Gove) will be announced in January 2018: the reduction of marine plastic pollution as '25 years of environmental improvement plan' of a Important goal
Earlier, the British government promised in its election campaign earlier that 'our generation should become a precedent to make the environmental situation better than before.' 'British Environmental Minister Michael Gove, when explaining how the British government has fulfilled this promise, Focusing on one-off plastic issues, Gove is also actively encouraging retailers to reduce the amount of plastic used to make it easier to recycle packaging materials.
Defra, the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, is investigating the fundamental shift in waste recycling standards and changing the EU's measurement system, which uses the total weight of waste recovered as a measure of progress.
However, due to the overemphasis on the weight of the recyclables, prompting local governments in Britain to try to collect more low-value but heavy waste (such as grass cuttings), to improve the level of recovery reported.Therefore, the British Minister of Environment, Mr. Goff hope to recover The impact of materials on the environment and its own use value as a measure to promote waste recovery, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions, will greatly facilitate the recovery of aluminum and plastics as this will be compared to the production of raw materials , Will consume less energy and fossil fuels.
According to the report, following the British government's 25-year Environmental Improvement Plan, a waste and resource strategy will be announced for specific environmental improvement measures by the end of 2017. Goff said he hopes to reduce the use of disposable plastics, And is considering the use of plastic beverage bottle deposit system.
At the same time, the UK's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is also pondering how to encourage the authorities to adopt the same standards as much as possible in order to reduce people's distress when it comes to recycling items. Because the contracts signed by local governments and waste recycling companies are not the same, In some places, people are required to collect food waste and plastic products, while others do not require such collection.Some stipulations require each household to put glass and paper in the same bag, while others insist that this Two separate.
Simon Ellin, chief executive of the British Recycling Chamber of Commerce, which represents the entire UK waste recycling company, said the Lord Goff should consider banning the production of hard-to-recycle plastic items such as black plastic food trays, Plastic bottles and other products in the provisions of plastic recycling minimum standards.
Dominic Hogg, chairman of the Organization for Research and Consultation in Onomiaa, said that Minister Goff should ban the production of disposable plastic products or tax such products as cups, cutlery and drinking straw at Beach garbage accounted for a large proportion.
In addition, President Hogg also suggested setting a limit to reduce domestic waste that could not be recovered per capita, and the report said the system has been used in parts of Belgium and northern Italy.