Deposit Return Scheme Delay Risks Rise In Plastic Pollution
The scheme won’t now start until 2022, meaning slower climate action and risk of increasing plastic pollution
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Press Releases
Find the latest Friends of the Earth Scotland press releases
Coronavirus delay to Scottish Government Climate Change Plan ‘understandable’
Coronavirus shows how important it is that climate action tackles existing inequalities and protects the most vulnerable
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Consumer Scotland Bill Stage Two
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Circular Economy Briefing
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Response to Developing Scotland’s circular economy: consultation on proposals for legislation
Friends of the Earth Scotland’s response to a Scottish Government’s consultation on Developing Scotland’s circular economy
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Scottish Government launches Circular Economy Consultation
Welcome for Circular Economy Bill consultation but failure to set targets to cut resource overuse.
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Welcome for charge on single-use cups
Campaigners say it is an important step to cutting the enormous amount of waste generated by our throwaway society.
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Response to the ECCLR Committee on a Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland
FoES response to a Scottish Parliament Committee’s call for evidence on the Deposit Return Scheme.
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Green groups call for radical change on single use plastics
Politicians urged to back plan to ban single-use coffee cups and unrecyclable food packaging cups in Scotland.
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