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Secretary Gove:End the Plastic Plague Now!
Secretary Gove:
End the Plastic Plague Now!
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To Environment Secretary, Michael Gove:

We urge you to forge ahead with the deposit and return scheme for plastic bottles, not allowing it to be watered-down and delayed by industry interests. We support a real financial incentive for recycling, rather than an abstract reward scheme. 10,000 bottles go un-recycled every minute; there's no time to waste!
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To Environment Secretary, Michael Gove:
"We urge you to forge ahead with the deposit and return scheme for plastic bottles, not allowing it to be watered-down and delayed by industry interests. We support a real financial incentive for recycling, rather than an abstract reward scheme. 10,000 bottles go un-recycled every minute; there's no time to waste!"
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Britain is drowning in plastic.

Every day 16 MILLION plastic bottles go un-recycled, choking our rivers and suffocating the ocean.

But now the Environment Secretary is strongly considering a revolutionary plan to incentivise recycling. It's so close -- but industry lobbyists and major supermarkets are pushing back, hard.

Together we can drown them out with a tidal wave of public support -- arming the secretary to stare down industry interests and give us the plastic-busting plan we need. Sign now and tell everyone.

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