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Ending the Throwaway Culture:-Five Principles for Tackling Single-use Items

This is the second, and final, Report of the Expert Panel for Environmental Charging and Other Measures.

This document sets outs five principles (the 5 Es) that can be effectively used to reduce the dependence on single-use items that are commonplace in society.

Ending the Throwaway Culture: Five Principles for Tackling Single-use Items 27 page PDF, 324.5 kB

Channel website: http://www.gov.scot/

Original article link: https://www.gov.scot/publications/ending-throwaway-culture-five-principles-tackling-single-use-items/

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