46% of UK adults want levy on single-use packaging

Disposable coffee cups, fries bowls, throwaway cutlery - Freiburg now has consequences for Tübingen. The vote of the municipal council is also a waste for the head of the town hall.

46% of UK adults want levy on single-use packaging

46% of UK adults want to see a charge introduced on single-use packaging similar to the carrier bag levy introduced in 2015. The survey of 2,000 UK adults by environmental charity City to Sea also found that 42% of respondents want plastic-wrapped fruit and veg, plastic water bottles and all single-use plastic bags to be banned. 58% of respondents said they have endeavoured to cut back on single-use packaging in the last 12 months. Some everyday…

A quick drink of coffee, a pizza in a cardboard box or a pick-up at lunch around the corner in the plastic box – all of this produces garbage. Unfortunately, you can also see it lying around at many corners and ends of the city. A municipal packaging tax could help, the Langener Grünen think.

As of 1 January there will be a charge of 50 cents per disposable packagingThe municipal council has decided: Freiburg will receive a packaging tax on disposable packaging from January 2026. 50 cents will then be due per packaging. The decision is controversial, especially from the economy, but also from the city administration and parts of the politics there had been a lot of resistance to the tax until the last time. Therefore a tight vote was…

The city of Tübingen dealt with garbage problems with a packaging tax. Is there soon also in Lingen?