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Link to "Litterbugs – How to Deal with the Problem of Littering"
- Extract from CPRE Report March 2009

Recommendations (see link above for more information)

The potential role of design, encouraging international case studies and local best practice have provided useful points for us to reflect on the UK’s current anti-littering strategy. From these reflections it is clear that there is much more we can and should do. If adopted, the following recommendations could help reduce litter and littering on our small and crowded island.

  1. The re-establishment and reform of ENCAMS as the national body responsible for coordinating anti-littering initiatives, campaigns and programmes

  2. The development of a permanent educational campaign with a consistent message to target littering

  3. The provision of bins and ashtrays in strategic sites

  4. The introduction of a national deposit scheme

  5. Taking account of litter and littering behaviour in the design of our public spaces

  6. Greater consistency in the application of penalties for littering across local authorities

  7. The creation of a new Environmental Advisory Service to promote effective knowledge sharing

Litter in lockdown

a study of littering in the time of coronavirus by Cat Chapman & Karen Bomford for CPRE, the countryside charity

CPRE Recommendations

 

  1. Deliver systemic solutions to littering:
    1.1.  Commit to an ‘all-in’ Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) that includes glass, plastic and metal drinks containers of all sizes by the end of 2023. Applying a deposit to drinks containers prevents them being littered.

    1.2.  Introduce a full Extended Producer Responsibility scheme (EPR) by the end of 2023 that is transparent, accurate and detailed and which provides full end of life costs, to specific types of materials. Fees to producers should be sufficiently modulated in order to incentivise eco-design and to drive a continued reduction in the production and sale of single-use plastics. Fees should also cover the costs of street cleansing and any targeted anti-littering campaigns.

    1.3.  Use a combination of taxes and charges, combined with full extended producer responsibility, to incentivise a reduction in single-use items and packaging right across the supply chain. Charges on single-use items, such as cutlery, must cover all single-use items and not just plastic to guarantee against a rise in wasting other valuable materials.
     

  2. Support the promotion of the Countryside Code, with its clear anti-littering guidance, through online advertising and engagement with schools. 
     

  3. Renewed government commitment to the aims of the Litter Strategy for different local groups, National Parks, local authorities, Highways England and businesses to reduce litter through co-operation, collaboration and joint working.

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Also:

Promote the benefits of re-usable masks wherever possible, emphasising their safety, and encourage people to dispose of any single-use masks responsibly when these are used.

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For further information see here.

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