§ Mr. Shersbyasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will initiate discussions with the manufacturers and distributors of beverages sold in metal cans and with the tobacco companies whose products are sold in packets about measures to seek to encourage the public to dispose of empty containers properly through refuse collection facilities.
§ Mr. Waldegrave[pursuant to his answer, 27 March 1985]: My Department already has regular contact with the packaging industry and particularly the industry committee for packaging and the environment which actively campaigns for the proper disposal by the public of empty containers. This is achieved in a wide variety of ways including strong encouragement for the use of appropriate labelling on packaging to effect recycling or
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1 2 3 4 Authority Budgeted Rate Fund Contribution 1985–86 (£m) Rate Fund contribution Limit 1985–86 (£m) Increase in Average Weekly Rent 1985–86 (£) Per cent increase in Average Weekly Rent 1985–86 (per cent.) Berwickshire (0.061) Nil 0.96p 7.5 Ettrick & Lauderdale (0.316) Nil -0.10p -1.0 Roxburgh 0.052 0.052 1.27 9.4 Tweeddale (0.023) Nil -0.02p -0.2 Clackmannan 0.712 0.712 0.44p 3.9 Falkirk 2.953 2.953 0.95p 8.9 Sterling 3.197 2.026 1.00 10.8 Annandale & Eskdale 0.195 0.195 1.00 7.8 Nithsdale 0.292 0.292 0.98p 9.4 Stewartry 0.084 0.084 0.15p 1.1 Wigtown Nil Nil 1.47 10.3 Dunfermline 1.229 1.229 Nil Nil Kirkcaldy 1.406 1.406 1.00 8.6 North East Fife Nil Nil 1.15 9.2 Aberdeen 6.015 6.015 2.25 25.2 Banff & Buchan 0.111 0.111 1.49 12.1 Gordon 0.484 0.484 1.76 14.7 Kincardine & Deeside 0.053 0.169 1.25 10.6 Moray Nil Nil 2.17 18.7 Badenoch & Strathspey 0.071 0.071 1.00 8.0 Caithness 0.258 0.258 1.00 8.5 Inverness 0.913 0.914 1.98 17.5 proper disposal. We also give direct support to the Keep Britain Tidy Group for their comprehensive litter abatement work which includes substantial interface with industry to obtain appropriate labelling of packaging containers and litter bins with the international Tidyman symbol. The group also operates a systematic community environment programme involving industry and local authorities.