By the end of this year the United Kingdom will begin phasing the used and purchase of plastic, one-time, throwaway plastic utensils, cups, plates, and more; in a bid to prevent more plastics and trash littering the grounds and compounding in landfills.
Environment Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed this with Daily Mail, explaining that she will ban plastic plates, trays, bowls, cutlery, balloon sticks and certain types of polystyrene cups and food containers, asserting such a drastic move would have a ‘huge impact’ and cutoff the excess of billions of plastic that is polluting the planet.
A plastic fork can take 200 years to decompose – that is two centuries in landfill or polluting our oceans.
I am determined to drive forward action to tackle this issue head on. We know there is more to do, and we have again listened to the public’s calls.
This new ban will have a huge imp act to stop the pollution of billions of pieces of plastic and help to protect the natural environment for future generations.
She said
‘The ban will not cover plastic plates, bowls and trays that are used as packaging for takeaway food and drink in supermarkets and shops – but will cover packaging for food and drink that is eaten at a restaurant, café or takeaway. This is because takeaway packaging is covered by a separate scheme which will make manufacturers contribute to the cost of disposing of their plastic packaging,’ Daily Mail explained.
The legislation will take effect by October to allow businesses to adjust to the transition.
Daily Mail noted that their sister company were trailblazer’s in trying to influence this change, writing: ‘the Mail has led the way on banning single-use items through its award-winning Turn the Tide on plastic campaign. It prompted Ministers to introduce a 5p charge on plastic carrier bags in 2015, cutting their use in the main supermarkets by 95 percent.’
Television moderator Kirstie Allsopp told The Mail last week in a statement:
It’s not often you get to say hats off to the Government, but credit where credit’s due.
This is really positive and it’s a result of the campaigning by Mail newspapers which have been brilliant on this.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This is a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, this is certainly helpful to the environment. Plastics, in retrospect, should have never been introduced, or at the absolute least never at this scale and convenience that it has become. The plastic residue and toxicity is one of the most underrated things affecting people’s health today, because of all the seepage in packaging and in the environment.
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On the flipside, this is yet another major blow to small businesses and what remains of the middle class consumer. Plastics have artificially forced the price of real things to go up substantially; and now, at a time when there are no signs of inflation stopping, the prices are going to get immensely worse, which in turn means the supply chains and resources are going to be stretched thin. Wherefore this will cause FURTHER destruction of the environment on the backend to meet demands.
We should have never been in this position in the first place.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:24
As I have said before, there are *some* good aspects to the green movement, such as going organic and regenerative, in a bid to get rid of GMOs, pesticides, heavy metals and chemicals, and so forth. The problem is – just like with this plastic ban – is it has been hijacked and used to purposefully dismantle and teardown the current framework of this country, thereby destabilizing the consumer even more; because with conventional farms being mandated and voluntarily going organic and regenerative, it means there will be lapses and prolonged shortages of conventional slop the masses love and devour, thereby creating systematic famine.
He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
Proverbs 18:17
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I agree. The seemingly “good” things our rulers implement are not out of charity, but always to serve hidden, self-serving purposes.