The British Retail Consortium warns that the Government’s new bottle recycling scheme could cost retailers £1.8 billion annually, with consumers likely to bear the brunt of the costs. The Telegraph has the story.
The Government’s flagship bottle recycling scheme will cost companies ten times the amount that officials previously claimed, industry analysis suggests.
According to calculations by the British Retail Consortium (BRC), the planned deposit system for the purchase of drinks bottles and cans will cost retailers at least £1.8 billion a year.
Much of the cost is likely to be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, prompting calls for the scheme to be delayed or even scrapped.
The BRC said its analysis highlighted the need for a delay to “rethink” current plans in order to “prevent the introduction of an unnecessarily complex and costly scheme”.
It comes after a separate scheme to charge retailers and manufacturers for the cost of councils recycling their packaging was delayed by ministers, following concerns raised by retailers and MPs over the likely impact on the cost of household goods.
In the Government’s official impact assessment for the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) – seen by the Telegraph – the annual cost was estimated to be £171 million a year back in 2019.
However, analysis from the BRC, which represents major supermarkets, suggests that the annual cost to the retail industry will be at least £1.8 billion a year from 2025, a figure ten times that amount.
The scheme includes special ‘reverse vending machines’ to be installed in shops for consumers to return plastic bottles and drinks cans and receive their cash back, with costs to the industry including ensuring the machines are protected from the elements or criminals as well as those associated with storage and logistics of returned bottles.
The BRC believes that the costs to the industry will rise even further, as their calculations do not include the cost from the industry to set up an industry body to run the scheme, the cost of which they say would run into the hundreds of millions.
Craig Mackinlay, who chairs the Net Zero scrutiny group of Conservative MPs, said: “The Deposit Return Scheme, although laudable in its intent to increase recycling and minimise plastic waste, comes with a considerable price-tag.
“The cost will simply be added to prices and so will be inflationary. As ever it will hit the poorest hardest. The current delay is welcome, a permanent scrapping of the whole idea would be even more so.”
The scheme, along with the delayed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme, was devised by the then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove to help the U.K. to reduce waste and was billed as helping Britain meet its Net Zero target.
The BRC said that “margins remain slim” on produce and have “significantly tightened in the last year”, which meant that “while retailers may be able to absorb some of the costs of implementing these new policies, it is inevitable that introducing EPR and DRS together would place upward pressure on consumer prices”.
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Stupid is as stupid does.
Vaccination has become a bit like global warming, an article of faith and religion rather than fact
The cock up theory: bureaucracy moves slowly, once you put in regulations they’re hard to dismantle, politicians are spineless and incompetent.
The bad actors theory: global governance enthusiasts like Macron are holding the line, trying to lay the foundations for a social credit system, central bank digital currency, general enslavement of the population.
(I refuse any longer to refer to the non-cock up explanation of things as a conspiracy theory. The WEF and its intentions to promote world government are public and well known. The ambitions of Bill Gates to vaccinate and track every human on the planet have been stated by him openly on numerous occasions and his influence through GAVI and the WHO are plain to see. Central bankers have announced the development of CBDCs. The admiration of the Chinese social credit system by many western policy makers is real. The ambition of subjecting the world population to unprecedented control by a very powerful few is real and uncomfortably close to being realised. And those who refer to any of that as a conspiracy theories are the delusional ones.)
Well said. And to add to that, anyone who clings to the idea that there is anything benign about certification schemes for vaccines that demonstrably aren’t vaccines, is mentally ill, dangerous, and needs help. My own sister is one of them, she has a PhD and the level of delusion and cognitive dissonance is breathtaking.
W*nkers.
But I’ll just continue to play them with my self-administered aka no physical contact swab done in a national pharmacy chain for 20 quid, and then drive around all the Schengen countries regardless of their rules.
Just worked fine last month.
And the French customs agent in Folkestone didn’t even look at the test sheet. Even they now know it is and treat it like a farce.
Can you be more specific about the self adminsitered no-contact swab thing? I’m very interested in swabing my dog.
The pharmacy I use lets you do it yourself, oral or nasal, while they fill out the form.
No need to touch your gum when you stick it in your mouth, just doing an air swab.
I am reliably informed that dog slobber will provide the necessary result and also, rather than repeatedly paying for so called tests, keep the original negative result on file and use pdf edit to arrange the dates to suit your travel needs. As mentioned above, the French border police/douanes don’t care. (I believe the burden of ‘proof’ lies with the carrier anyway).
Well there goes our driving trip to Greece.
Macrony just cant stop helping the globalist cause.
Can you just say you’re driving through? Belgium is sensible. Not the most scenic route perhaps though.
‘The spike in the number of cases has occurred in spite of the vaccination rates in the country.’
‘In spite of’? Try ‘because of’.
Remember when, if everybody gets vaccinated we can all get back to normal?
And yet they won’t admit they were wrong and still insist people get booster doses despite overwhelming evidence that vaccination is driving increased infections and increasing the risk of hospitalisation and death from CoVid and a significant risk of injury or death from the vaccines themselves.
Just how much longer can they keep this up?
But the vaccines have saved 20,000,000 people because Neil says so.
Until the sheeple wake up ‘they’ can keep this going forever.
Hang on. I thought it was about a virus!! Funny how crack downs come after G7 meetings. Perhaps we should ban these get togethers?
FFS.
Les morons.
What’s worse are the countries that don’t let the unvaccinated in at all (though they’re all pretty stupid, as all the measures are bollocks).
I think we need to abandon all hopes of this thing going away. Sorry.
What a depressing but most likely true comment
Hmm I was planning to spend the ski season out there next year. Not if it means I have to have another booster. Time to find another country.
>would have to show proof they are immune [sic] to COVID-19.
My head is wobbling so much at this that I risk it falling off. The most ludicrous comment from a government in a long time.
“Have none of them noticed that vaccination does not prevent infection or transmission?”
Of course the do
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Macron a WEF member/puppet. What did you expect?? Despite the fact that EVERYONE knows these experimental biologicals don’t work, cause adverse events and deaths and repeat infection…..France continues its vaxx entry requirements
“The bill comes following a vote in the European Parliament last week to approve an EU Commission proposal to renew the EU Digital Covid Certificate for another year.”
…and in May 2023, the Etias visa waiver scheme comes into being, whereby passport and health details have to be input online to apply for the waiver to visit Europe. More tracking and surveillance…
https://www.etiasvisa.com/etias-news/etias-role-protecting-public-health