Chris Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the IEA, is quoted in The Sun in a piece reporting on his upcoming briefing on the UK’s proposed plastic bottle Deposit Return Scheme.

He notes that the scheme will cost £800m per year to run and that it will do little to reduce the plastic in the worlds’ oceans, 95% of which comes from just 10 rivers – eight of which are in Asia and two in Africa.

The government estimates the psychological cost of seeing less little will be nearly £1 billion.

Read the full piece here.