Government recycling announcement “fiddling with a system that’s broken”

Commenting on plans by the government to streamline recycling collection, Nina Schrank, head of plastics at Greenpeace UK said:

The government is fiddling with a system that’s fundamentally broken. We can streamline waste collection all we like, it’ll do little to solve the scandalous fact that so much of our plastic recycling will ultimately end up burnt in incinerators around the UK, dumped in landfill or shipped overseas for others to deal with.

The public want to see action on this. To do that we have to produce less waste. The government needs to get serious and back measures to cut the amount of plastic packaging we produce as a country in the first place. To get there they need to support an ambitious UN Global Plastics Treaty that’ll end single-use plastic and cut plastic production at source.”