change packaging regulations

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The idea

remove packaging regulations as they are too complicated to work… just add tax to goods, to recover in area where goods are sold and used by local authorities for street cleaning etc and to pay specialist contractors such as BIFFA for disposal of other than domestic waste.

The councils keep enough statistics to satisfy the EU regs and litter collection is part of the environmental regulations anyway.(i'll bet there was contingency in product prices when this was brought out)  This would tackle the real nuisance litter such as sweet wrappers McDonalds bags that seem to litter our roads.

Bringing in more community service for penalties with the community service offenders doing litter picking would also help the litter problem

Why is it important?

The packaging regulations are complex and costly to companies to implement,  it does not tackle the real packaging problem ….litter and it doesnt give any incentive to tackle litter. 

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