Grundy added she is supportive of the DRS in general and thinks it will help reduce littering.<\/p>\n
She was speaking at an event for the “Big Paddle Cleanup”, an annual campaign to reduce water pollution during which volunteers clear rubbish from their local rivers and canals.<\/p>\n
“As we look at what’s in this sack, it is literally all those things that the deposit return scheme will include,” she said. “The biggest contributor here this afternoon is single-use plastic bottles.”<\/p>\n
Marathon kayak athlete Freya Peters trains on waterways in Nottingham up to twice a day.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes we see wildlife entangled in plastic waste. When I’m paddling I see plastic bottles, plastic bags, sometimes much larger items,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It can be really upsetting and often for me the first question is – why is that there?”<\/p>\n
In three hours, Paddle UK staff and volunteers removed 20 sacks of rubbish from the water, along with “surprises” such as a grit bin, polystyrene slabs, a fire extinguisher and road signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grundy added she is supportive of the DRS in general and thinks it will help reduce littering. She…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-634175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}