Glasgow City Council wants your views on plastics plan

Glasgow City Council wants to know the views of the public before it forms a new plastics strategy.

An online survey asks to what extent participants agree or disagree the Council should take some form of action.

It also wants to get people’s opinions on whether to introduce incentives for reducing your plastic use.

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Suggestions include small cash refunds, vouchers or discounts and discounted rates for businesses who ban single use plastics.

Questions include what should be focused on first and what event organisers and licensed premises can do to combat the issue.

“We are currently preparing a strategy to focus on the problem of plastic pollution,” a Council spokesman said.

“This will highlight the need to reduce, re-use and prevent the use of single use plastics in the city and outline what action we will take to do so.

“We are looking for more information to support development of this strategy.”

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Current initiatives include a top-up tap on Buchanan Street so people can refill water bottles and the Glasgow Cup Movement, which focuses on recycling single use coffee cups.

Ideas arising from early consultation on the new scheme included using the licensing process to ensure licensed premises and events reduce their use of plastic straws and other forms of single use plastic, explore further installation of top-up taps across the city and adding plumbed-in water coolers to Council premises, such as museums and libraries.

The consultation runs until Wednesday, July 31.