The British government said in a statement on the 27th that the United Kingdom will implement a beverage bottle recycling program to increase the recycling rate of waste products and reduce pollution of land and sea by waste products.
The statement said that according to the plan, consumers must pay a certain deposit when they buy drinks, and refund the deposit when they return the drink bottles.
At present, this recycling plan has been implemented in Denmark, Sweden and Germany.
According to statistics, British consumers use about 13 billion plastic beverage bottles each year, and about 3 billion of these beverage bottles are burned, buried or discarded.
In a statement, the British Minister of the Environment, Michael Goff, said that plastic products not only pollute people’s places of residence, they also destroy the marine environment, harm or even kill marine animals such as dolphins and sea turtles. “We need to take action now to address this threat, Millions of plastic bottles are recycled every day. '
Goff said that England will discuss and discuss specific plans for the implementation of the plan in the second half of this year. One of the measures is to use a machine similar to a vending machine. When people put plastic or glass bottles into the machine, the machine will refund the deposit. .
In order to reduce the use of plastic bags, the United Kingdom has charged 5 pence (about 0.4 yuan) per plastic bag since 2015.