KEEP WALES TIDY’S All Wales Report exhibits important upwards pattern in drinks litter on Welsh streets
Environmental charity, Keep Wales Tidy, has revealed its annual All Wales Report for 2023-24, which supplies the one constant and strong measure of avenue litter information for the entire of Wales.
This yr, Keep Wales Tidy surveyed 3,161 streets throughout Wales between April 2023 and January 2024, with outcomes representing streets adopted by native authorities alone and never extending to parks, seashores or busy roads, which means outcomes possible current a big underestimate.
Drinks litter was current on 43.6% of streets, with ranges in individual counties ranging significantly from 19.4% of streets to 86.1%.
Aluminium cans are persistently the commonest drinks receptacle, discovered on 18.1% of streets, 3 proportion factors greater than 2022-23, and the incidence of glass bottles has greater than doubled during the last 4 years, growing to five.2% of streets.
With a transparent upwards pattern for cans, glass and plastic bottles, all of which give good high quality supplies for recycling, Keep Wales Tidy is once more calling on Ministers to implement a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) by 2025.
Keep Wales Tidy Chief Executive Owen Derbyshire stated: “The All Wales Report supplies important perception into the usual of avenue cleanliness throughout Wales and we’ll proceed to make use of this information to advise on change and coverage revision.
“The prevalence of drinks litter is beyond frustrating when the solution – a comprehensive DRS – is within our grasp. We’re urgently calling on governments across the UK to prevent further delays and proceed with rolling out the scheme.”
A recent YouGov ballot confirmed that two-thirds of the UK public assist the introduction of a DRS scheme, and 36% assist a deposit of as much as 20p per container.
More than 40 nations have already efficiently applied a DRS, together with Latvia the place a 61% discount in littered plastic containers has been seen since introducing the scheme in 2022.
Keep Wales Tidy hosted a webinar, on Monday 11 March, with Reloop, Friends of the Earth Cymru and Circular Economy consultants from Latvian NGO, Green Liberty, for Members of the Senedd to listen to in regards to the worldwide context of DRS, the advantages of Wales’s present strategy to DRS and the way implementing this should proceed at tempo.
Keep Wales Tidy Policy and Research Manager Jemma Bere stated: “This webinar aims to maintain momentum on the subject of DRS in Wales, and we as an organisation hope that this ongoing engagement from the Senedd will ensure that DRS remains a priority for the incoming First Minister in 2024.”
The All Wales Report 2023-24 Summary and Full Report are available right here:
