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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

3. Are there any others items that these new powers for environmental charging should be applied to in the future?

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Don't know
If yes, please specify.
everything, but beware - if you give yourselves power, you have to use them, not just wait around like the last 50 years

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

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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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If yes, please specify.
why in the future - we are there already

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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If yes, please specify.
this is not the time or the place for detail, but no manufacturing or importing process should be started (irresponsibly or not) without knowing what happens to the surplus or the unwanted e.g. packaging materials. All such should be barcoded (perhaps invisibly)to assist onward use.

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
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If yes, what should these 'additonal requirements' be?
well, you should know - you rowed back from banning landfill giving local government the feeling they would never really have to tackle their responsibilities. If that's how you aim to tackle difficult decisions you have failed at the first fence
The culture has to become 'no waste' however difficult - that's what you wanted power for, now that you have it , it is pure cowardice now to avoid the difficulties of your job.

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

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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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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.
everything, from the dropped standards above to the failure to adopt even existing technologies have been lost or missed opportunities. These problems have been recognised even by governments for 50 years, to just be consulting now is woeful - and I believe too late. Who are you going to blame ?

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

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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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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.
No - like it or not we ARE all in this together and we will all go down as one - get used to the idea

17. Taking into account the accompanying Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA), do you think that the proposals contained in this consultation are likely to increase or reduce the costs and burdens placed on any business or sector?

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of course they will be unequal - equality is a human concept, it has no bearing on nature, that is how we got here

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.
only minimally, unfortunately

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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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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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.
Yes, the timbre throughout is that of we (the government) are doing things and you (the business community & public) have just not done enough off your own bat so we will have to make you do the right thing and use this consultation as part of the argument.
The problem we see however is that the government in its various forms has not been doing its job at all. If you want to think of yourselves as our leaders, you have to do it first, then we will follow. Start with the simple stuff, technically & with legislation. Clean up our country, it's filthy - and it's easy to do. That will make a difference.
I suspect you won't - it's just not glamourous and photo opportunities are limited

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Ron Reid

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