Thanks to groaver for alerting me to this and noting, correctly, that you never hear any of this in the media.
From Commercial Waste Quotes:
Scotland has had relatively forward-thinking regulations since 1 January 2014, when the Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012 have been in force. It mandates all non-households to recycle specific materials and most food businesses to recycle their food waste.
Current state (Since 2014):
Businesses and organisations in Scotland, regardless of size, must recycle materials like plastic, metal, glass, paper, and cardboard.
Since 2022, single-use plastics such as polystyrenes, cutlery, plates, stirrers, cups and lids, straws are banned.
Urban food businesses producing over 5 kg of food waste per week must separately collect food waste, unless exempt in rural areas.
Disposing of food waste into public drains or sewers is illegal unless collection is unavailable.
In sharp contrast:
England: English waste regulation and enforcement is the most relaxed of all home nations, even with upcoming changes in 2025.
Current state:
Non-compliance with duty of care remains rife, particularly in SMEs who dispose of all their waste in the general waste stream.
Local authorities don’t collect the same range of recyclables across England.
The Environment Agency remains the most relaxed when it comes to regulations enforcement.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Well spotted by groaver and glad he/she decided to add this info onto here on the previous post.
Yep this another thing that the media here (and elsewhere too) fails to highlight in the news where we (supposdley) are.
They, the media, are way way too consumed in promoting a succession of #SNPBAD stories to even bother looking for #GOOD news that stems from actions of the SNP as the Scottish government, actually even though they, as a media, probably do know about all of the positive stories linked to the SNP they prefer that they , as positives, are kept well away from the public eye.
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Yes as TUS followers know only too well there are no good news stories to be aired in the media in Scotland to enforce the message that until these stupid Scots forget about this self determination nonsense like most other Independent nations Scotland is doomed under the SNP. So just do the ‘right’ thing and vote for a Unionist party if only for King and country to preserve patronage and privilige for our few Lords and Masters.
Robbo
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Here in the Highlands we are encouraged to compost our waste food and shown how to use cardboard in the garden to help in creating soil.
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Today’s newspapers are doing that which they do best in promoting propaganda.
Front page of The Sunday Post.
“Scots flooding across border to snap up cut price alcohols”
“Flooding” in relation to people means a very large amount.
Apparently this is during trips to England, so people are not specifically going to England just to buy alcohol in bulk then ?
In bulk ?
As in the same alcohol that if bought in bulk and then ,as a constant , is excessively consumed it then has a detrimental impact on your health as in it an be deadly.
Indeed for some people it can indeed become an addiction, which has developed mainly from excessive and consistent use , but it seems the press do not (currently) equate this type of addiction, as in alcoholism, or the possibility of developing an addiction to alcohol as being potentially a major problem for Scotland.
However excessive use of alcohol is very much a huge health problem but it seems that the same press (and also other media ) who often promote Scotland as having “the highest drug deaths in Europe” do not then consider there are similar risks with excessive alcohol use, as in it being equal to or as serious as drugs and the deaths that result from having both of these types type of addictions.
Indeed I am sure many many doctors could enlighten (educate) the media upon the serious impact excessive drinking has upon a person’s health, if that is, the media even care about any negative impact that would result in excessive drinking within Scotland.
In fact what Doctors would recommend the buying of alcohol in bulk as a wonderful thing to do ?
So are they , the media, yet again just more concerned (consumed) with promoting another #SNPBAD story about how England is, according to them, #BEST compared to Scotland , this time it is in relation to buying cheaper alcohol in bulk in England and apparently not being able to do the same in what they, the media, see as being all because #SNPBAD and also #ScotlandIsSh*te.
According to the Sunday Post “soaring alcohol prices in Scotland” are then “driving shoppers online and over the border into England in search of bargains”.
Well believe or not my husband and I (not the royal we) often go into Supermarkets in Edinburgh and we see many reduced alcohol prices in wine, beer and spirits so it makes me wonder why some people would go to the expense of travelling to another country just to buy alcohol in bulk (?) when there are reduced prices in Scottish supermarkets .
Also are the press in Scotland trying to encourage people to drink more alcohol, in them as a media communicating how to do this, as in according to them , where to go to buy the cheapest alcohol in bulk ?
A tad irresponsible of the media is it not, if that is , this story is to be seen as credible as in true.
As surely the same media should be condemning this action by people and not promoting it, mainly due to the serious harm alcohol poses to one’s health.
Are the media trying to encourage a major public health issue in Scotland , which would then be another stick for them, as the media , with which to try and beat the Scottish government with.
(And where we the public would be expected to forget it was them, the press, who promoted on their front pages where cheaper alcohol could be found across the border in England and online too for people to buy in bulk ……allegedly).
I wonder , is there not far more pressing and far more serious issues happening within their UK, that perhaps the Sunday Post could instead have put on their front page, as in huge issues that are having a huge impact and also are resulting in huge damaging consequences for some people within Scotland because of the current Labour UK government’s bad decisions since coming to power this year.
This alcohol story is an old chestnut of a story and one that the media in Scotland love to promote periodically , as like all other stories they the media here love to promote and regurgitate , they are only promoted by the media with the sole intention of highlighting #SNPBAD and also #ScotlandIsSh*te and not instead with the intention of it being communicated for the benefit of the public.
I think we all know who to apply the #BAD onto and also the #Sh*te onto as well , and if you are in any doubt as to whom I am referring, it is of course the media , same media who put so called ‘news’ articles like this onto their front pages as #SupposedNews .
While also as a media they deliberately choose to ignore the many many beneficial policies the SNP have adopted as the Scottish government to try to help people in Scotland survive the cruel and bad policies that they , as people in Scotland, have been subjected to via a succession of cruel and bad UK governments.
Of course the other old chestnut in this, is that stories like this, are all only promoted by the dominant pro UK media, in order to try and stop an increased support for both the SNP and also for Scottish independence.
#Fail (one would hope , if that is, sanity prevails within Scotland).
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Here is, what is clearly a conflicting position, by Anas Sarwar.
The National reported that “Anas Sarwar refuses to blame Westminster policies for causing collapse in support”
Yet if that is the case (which I doubt) then why does the same Anas Sarwar state that if he was the next FM of Scotland, then his government would adopt and so implement a totally different position on some policies in Scotland, to that which his Labour party at WM have adopted and now implemented.
As his party at UK government level have continued with the Tory policy of the two child cap and also have decided to cut the Universal Winter fuel payment for pensioners, excepting those on benefits.
So if these policies were having no impact, as in causing no “collapse in support” for Labour here , then Sarwar would not be saying anything different or distinct from UK Labour , but instead he would be most forceful in defending these policies by UK Labour as ones that he himself would continue with if he was the next FM in Scotland.
Surely ?
On the 19 November 2024 it was reported that “Sarwar pledges to expand winter fuel payment” (in Scotland if elected as next FM) and it was also reported that he had “previously called for an end to the two child cap, which prevents most parents from claiming universal credit or child tax credit for a third child”.
Yet when UK Labour as the UK government did both of these things then initially the same Sarwar tried to justify these actions by Labour UK in using the same excuse that there was a ‘financial black hole’ in UK finances.
However he failed to maintain that supportive position for UK Labour on these cruel policies as he obviously realised that both of these measures (and others also) were not supported in Scotland.
So he, Sarwar, obviously must have also then realised that these decisions by his UK party at WM would then have a negative impact on support and votes for his party here, as in cause a “collapse in support” for Labour in Scotland prior to the 2026 Scottish election.
Also why is it that the poorest and most vulnerable are chosen as those expected to help this new Labour UK government to fill that “financial black hole” and not instead the far wealthier ones who were more than likely those partially responsible for much of that alleged deficit ?
Also the same Anas Sarwar was reported , prior to the GE , on a front page of the Daily Record (client media of the Labour party) , to have stated that he would:
“Stand up to Keir Starmer”.
Why did he, Sarwar, think he would need to do this ?
Unless he knew that Labour UK were lying about “Change” ever happening if they, Labour UK, did win in the UK GE , or I suspect it was merely a PR tactic by him and Labour’s client media in Scotland, to try to con aka fool the public in Scotland into (wrongly) thinking that Labour here in Scotland were distinct from Labour at WM.
They are not as they are one and the same party , as in they are all UK Labour.
So then one is left wondering what exactly is he, Sarwar, considering as being urgent and significant issues , that he then thinks he will need to “Stand up to Keir Starmer”, as in respect to him, Sarwar, fighting against an action implemented by Keir Starmer that negatively impacts Scotland?
Also if it is not “Westminster policies to blame for causing collapse in support” for Labour in Scotland , then what or who does Anas Sarwar blame for this actually happening ,via the recent poll predictions that show Labour losing support, surely he himself has to take some blame as leader of Labour in Scotland ?
I think that I , and thousands of others in Scotland , can confirm for Anas Sarwar, Keir Starmer, Ian Murray, the BBC, The Daily Record and all others like them who support the UK more than Scotland, and who attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of voters in Scotland, that it is Labour here and elsewhere that has caused support to fall for Labour (in the past and also now).
Some of those voters who voted for 37 Labour MP’s in Scotland in the GE now must surely know what we on here always knew, and that is that they as Labour MP’s will always, like the Tories, put party first and never ever will fight for Scotland to be in a position that sees us, as a nation within the UK, as one that is at a distinct advantage over England aka the UK. (as for them the opposite is always the case).
When Sir Keir Starmer says “jump” then Sarwar replies “How high”.
That’s why Sarwar’s argument and Labour’s votes are collapsing in Scotland.
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“Surely?”
Ol’ Anus doesn’t have an original thought in his skull.
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