The Daily Telegraph - 24.07.2019

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Councils told to

offer complete

recycling service

within four years

By Sarah Knapton SCIENCE EDITOR

COUNCILS will have to offer house-
holds a comprehensive recycling ser-
vice within four years to end the
chaotic situation across the country,
ministers have said.
Earlier this month The Daily Tele-
graph revealed that just one in five
councils provided a complete recycling
service, leaving householders in a post-
code lottery of waste disposal, and con-
fused as to what they should be putting
in their bins.
The bewildering system means Brit-
ain will not meet targets to recycle 50
per cent of household waste by 2020.
This newspaper launched a “Zero
Waste” campaign calling on the Gov-
ernment, local councils and private
companies to do more to boost the
country’s recycling rates and make the
process simpler.
After a consultation, the Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Af-
fairs (Defra) has announced that by
2023, all councils will be legally obliged
to recycle glass bottles and jars, paper
and card, plastic bottles, pots, and
trays, as well as steel and aluminium
cans. Food waste recycling will also be

brought in across the country, and the

Government is considering funding

councils to collect garden waste for

free. Many have recently started charg-

ing up to £96 a year for the service.

Under new plans, producers of pack-

aging will also bear the full net cost of

disposing of it, to encourage them to

choose recyclable products.

Martin Tett, the environment

spokesman for the Local Government

Association, said: “We support moves

to a clearly defined core set of recycla-

ble materials, as long it is fully funded,

and welcome further work on how

funding from packaging producers and

retailers will be allocated to councils.

“The onus is now on manufacturers

to urgently up their game by using

packaging that is fully and easily recy-

clable, and pay the full cost of recycling

packaging.” Under the proposals, labels

on packaging will also become simpler.

A Defra spokesman said: “The Gov-

ernment aims to make it easier for peo-

ple to recycle by implementing a

consistent and simplified approach

across local authorities.”

The measures were set out by

Michael Gove, the Environment Secre-

tary, as part of the new Environment

Bill, which has been updated for the

first time in 20 years and will include

laws to make councils tackle waste ef-

fectively. Other proposals include a de-

posit return scheme for drinks

containers.

You take the high road Richard Thoday is aiming to break the record for riding from

Land’s End to John o’ Groats on a penny farthing, set in 1886 by Lt Col George Pilkington

Mills. Mr Thoday, from Matlock, aims to finish in less than five days, one hour and 45 mins.

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200,000 cash in their

gold-plated pensions

The number of people cashing in their

gold-plated pensions has doubled in a

year, even as the City watchdog is

investigating the practice.

More than 200,000 transfers took

place in 2018-19, up from 100,000.

They were also worth much more,

totalling £34 billion, two-and-a-half

times greater than the previous year.

NEWS BULLETIN

Emergency plan to save

youth prison from gangs

Cambridges promote PR

chief to foundation head

Gang rivalry has seen Feltham young

offenders institution “collapse” into

violence with a 150 per cent rise in

assaults on staff in six months, the

chief inspector of prisons says today.

Peter Clarke has issued an “urgent

notification” against Feltham,

requiring the Ministry of Justice to

produce an emergency plan to resolve

the crisis within 28 days.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s

loyal communications chief was

yesterday rewarded with the top job at

their Royal Foundation.

American Jason Knauf, 37, who

joined Kensington Palace in 2015, was

named chief executive of the newly

branded charitable venture after the

Duke and Duchess of Sussex separated

off to establish their own foundation.

Zero Waste

Harry bemoans ‘dirty habit’ of buying fruit and veg wrapped in plastic

By Victoria Ward

THE Duke of Sussex has warned that
the purchase of fruit and vegetables
wrapped in plastic is a “dirty habit”
that has “become normalised”.
He questioned how it had become
so common to buy peeled, pre-
packaged food, noting “it doesn’t make
any sense”.
The Duke was speaking to a small
group of young activists at a

conservation event spearheaded by Dr

Jane Goodall, the leading primatologist,

at Windsor Castle.

He urged them to question super-

market staff about their packaging

policies and the alternatives to plastic.

“I know Waitrose has spent a huge

amount of money trying to find differ-

ent ways to package stuff,” he said. “It

doesn’t make sense to find everything

in plastic. Plastic within plastic. Gone

are the days when you can just grab 10

carrots, take them home and give them

a shave. Now people are actually buy-

ing 10 shaved carrots in a plastic bag.

Why? We’ve slipped into this dirty

habit and it’s become normalised.”

The Duke, echoing his father’s con-

cerns about plastic pollution, said those

companies that had created the prob-

lem should take some responsibility

and “spend the money they have made

selling all this stuff ” to clean it up.

“Even better, stop making it and find-

ing alternatives,” he added. The Duke

had earlier greeted Dr Goodall, 85,

famed for her lifelong study of chim-

panzees, with a “chimp greeting” hav-

ing been taught it when the pair met.

He delivered a speech at the global

leadership meeting of her Roots &

Shoots initiative, for which students

from 26 countries had gathered for a

week to work together on various pro-

jects. Dr Goodall revealed that the

Duke had asked to meet her last year

and said she had met the Duchess of

Sussex and their son Archie at

Frogmore Cottage last month.

The Duke was also asked what peace

meant to him and responded: “To be

connected to the things that matter the

most, rather than being disconnected.”

He said a lack of human connection

created “a lack of compassion and em-

pathy for each other” which in turn

prompted a lack of understanding

about the importance of the ecosystem.

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