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1. Reduce: tackling our throwaway culture

1. Do you agree in principle that Scottish Ministers should have the power to set charges for environmentally harmful items, for example single-use disposable beverage cups?

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Neither agree nor disagree

2. Do you agree with the proposal to prioritise introduction of charges for single-use disposable beverage cups?

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No
Neither agree nor disagree

2. Reuse: encouraging use and reuse to prevent waste

4. To strengthen monitoring, measurement and reporting of waste across all sectors, do you agree with the principle that Scottish Ministers should have the power to require mandatory public reporting of:

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No
Neither agree nor disagree
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Neither agree nor disagree

5. Do you agree with the proposal to prioritise introduction of mandatory public reporting for businesses of:

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No
Neither agree nor disagree
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Neither agree nor disagree

6. Are there any other items, such as textiles and clothing, that mandatory reporting requirements on waste and surplus should be expanded to in the future?

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Don't know

7. Do you have any suggestions on how to encourage the reuse and redistribution of unwanted surplus stock, such as clothing and textiles?

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Don't know
If yes, please specify.
Should be sent to charity shops and abroad to help those less able to buy such goods

3. Recycle: maximising value of materials

8. Do you agree with the principle of enabling Scottish Ministers to place additional requirements on local authorities in order to increase rates and quality of household recycling?

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No
Neither agree nor disagree
If yes, what should these 'additonal requirements' be?
The key point being that local authorities need the funds and are now charging for some collections and closing recycling centres to save money

9. Do you agree with the principle of greater consistency in household recycling collections in different local authority areas?

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Neither agree nor disagree

10. Do you consider that we should move away from the current voluntary approach to Scotland’s Household Recycling Charter towards a more mandated approach, whereby implementation of the Charter and its supporting Code of Practice becomes a statutory obligation?

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Don't know

11. Do you consider that householders’ existing obligations are sufficient?

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12. Are there any other measures that you consider Scottish Government should take to help accelerate the rate and quality of household recycling in Scotland, taking account of experience and approaches elsewhere and existing householder behaviours?

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Don't know
If yes, please specify.
councils are cutting the numbers of environmental officers due to cuts and this needs to be addressed for enforcement measures to work

4. Improving enforcement

13. Do you agree that Scotland should have the power to seize vehicles suspected of waste crime, similar to the rest of the UK?

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Neither agree nor disagree

14. Do you agree Scottish Ministers should have powers to introduce a new fixed penalty regime for littering from vehicles?

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Neither agree nor disagree

15. Do you agree with the introduction of a new system that stipulates that the registered keeper of a vehicle is ultimately responsible for criminal offences such as littering from or in relation to their vehicle (for example by passengers or people using that vehicle at that time)?

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Neither agree nor disagree

5. Assessing impact of bill proposals

16. Taking into account the accompanying Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA), are there any additional likely impacts the proposals contained in this consultation may have on particular groups of people, with reference to the ‘protected characteristics’ listed above?

Please specify.
People with a disability may need more assistance but this is being cut by the cuts to local services

18. Do you think that the proposals contained in this consultation are likely to have an impact on the environment? If so, which ones and how?

Please specify.
it will be positive I would hope

6. Proposals for secondary legislation

19. Do you agree with the proposal that procurement strategies published by relevant public bodies should include consideration of activity which supports the circular economy and action on climate change?

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Neither agree nor disagree

20. Do you agree with the proposal to increase the minimum charge on single-use carrier bags from 5p to 10p?

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Neither agree nor disagree

21. Do you agree that the initial 5p minimum charge on single-use carrier bags has had a positive impact on the environment?

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Conclusion

22. Do you have any other comments that you would like to make, relevant to the subject of this consultation, that you have not covered in your answers to other questions?

Please provide any comments.
councils need to spend resources and sadly they are cutting environment services to balance the books

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