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Case Study → Recycling (UK Government Actions) (Edexcel A-Level Geography): Revision Notes

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Case Study \to Recycling (UK Government actions) Introduction ● Local authorities in the UK run their own recycling schemes under Local Agenda 21 ○ Est At the 1992 UN conference on Environment & development Impacts ● UK households recycled 45% of their waste in 2018 ○ But this is only 11% more than in 2000 ● Much of the waste is sent to other Countries 📝 (eg. China) to be recycled Plastic Bags ● Beginning with Wales in 2011 and England in 2015, 5p charge was introduced for single use plastic bags in shops ○ Plastic bags are bad for the environment as they are made from crude oil, a non-renewable resource ● By the end of 2019, UK consumers were using an average of 10 bags per year, down from 140 before the charge was introduced Recycling in the United Kingdom*

Introduction	● Local authorities in the UK run their own recycling schemes under Local Agenda 21 ○ Est At the 1992 UN conference on Environment & development
Impacts	● UK households recycled 45% of their waste in 2018 ○ But this is only 11% more than in 2000 ● Much of the waste is sent to other Countries 📝 (eg. China) to be recycled
Plastic Bags	● Beginning with Wales in 2011 and England in 2015, 5p charge was introduced for single use plastic bags in shops ○ Plastic bags are bad for the environment as they are made from crude oil, a non-renewable resource ● By the end of 2019, UK consumers were using an average of 10 bags per year, down from 140 before the charge was introduced

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