💚🔵 Yesterday’s Queen’s Speech outlined our new plan for the environment.
We will create new environmental targets to improve air quality so you can breathe cleaner air.
🌳 🇬🇧 The UK is a global leader in tackling #ClimateChange and our new bill will ensure that we leave the environment in a better state for future generations.
.@ZacGoldsmith is considering banning the buying or selling of monkeys as pets 🐵
“Monkeys and other primates are wild animals with highly complex needs... Keeping them as pets causes immense suffering.”
https://t.co/aGwPYu8hI5
📢@Conservatives are taking action to reduce food waste.
📝Following our call to action, all major UK supermarkets have signed up to help halve food waste by 2030.
All major UK supermarkets have signed our pledge to help halve #FoodWaste by 2030. 🛒
We’re delighted to see these organisations step up to the plate following our call to action.
Find out more: https://t.co/pyG9ku91nw #LoveFoodHateWaste#Food
📢 We will be the first major economy to legislate to end our contribution to global warming by 2050 and go #NetZero.
💚 Conservatives tackling climate change and protecting our environment for future generations.
📢 Today we are choosing to be the first major economy in the world to go #NetZero on carbon emissions.
Why? Because the planet depends on us coming together to tackle climate change.
So by 2050, Britain will no longer be contributing to global warming.
Confirmed: We're getting rid of ⤵️
🥤 Plastic straws
☕️ Plastic stirrers
👂 Plastic cotton buds
🗣️ @MichaelGove: "These items are often used for just a few minutes but take hundreds of years to break down, ending up in our seas and oceans and harming precious marine life." 🐟
Staggering from @UKLabour@FullFact recently confirmed that Conservative councils recycle more than Labour ones: https://t.co/rEgzvfdl7P
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Only @Conservatives can be trusted to take the urgent action needed to protect our environment for future generations
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Disappointing that the government's plastics announcement falls short of EU proposals when ministers claim environmental standards will not lag behind after Brexit - @SueHayman1
https://t.co/ZLoLxD3wVh
So pleased the @Conservatives are leading the way in protecting what is most important, our environment. Hope these plastics that are a scourge of the seas are no more from 2020. 🐬🦑🐠 @ToryDEFRA
Today I am taking further action to turn the tide on plastic pollution. Items such as plastic straws & stirrers are often used for just a few minutes but take hundreds of years to break down, ending up in our seas & oceans and harming precious marine life #PassOnPlastic
We’re stepping up our fight against plastic waste.
Today we’re confirming a ban on plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds.
From next April these items will only be available to people with medical needs or a disability.
➡️ https://t.co/SDWp0VEhzm #PassOnPlastic#25YEP
JUST IN:
@michaelgove has announced urgent and decisive action to ban plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds – tackling plastic pollution and ensuring we leave our environment in a better state for future generations
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🗑️Every year 100,000 tonnes of available and edible food goes to waste
🥘This has got to change
♻️We are working with businesses, charities and volunteers to deliver a food waste reduction scheme backed by £15 million
#StopFoodWasteDay
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https://t.co/JoEJ0AEi0z