Environment Secretary Steve Reed in Peterborough

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00:00How can the government take action to reduce this kind of anti-social growth?

00:06Well I mean I've not been here that long. I've already picked up this amount in my bag and my

00:11colleagues here have all have all got similar. So actions the government is

00:17taking is we're introducing a deposit return scheme, a money-back scheme for

00:22people. Most of the litter that you'll find on the roads is food and drink

00:25containers. So if we can give people an incentive to bring back the bottle

00:30containers and get a few pennies back, as some of your viewers and listeners will

00:34remember from when they were younger, that can make a real difference. I mean

00:39there should be more that we can do to raise awareness. I think there's a lot

00:43of communities, including this one, where they have litter picking schemes like this

00:47and this shows people, even if they're not taking part in it themselves, that this is

00:51a community of people who care about their local area. That sends a positive

00:55message that means that you're less likely to be to be dumping rubbish. If an

00:59area looks generally well kept, and it's great to see the council mowing the

01:03grass in this way, if an area looks well kept it's much less likely to have more

01:08litter dumped in it as well. So investing in our communities, making them look

01:12better, can make a real difference.

01:13So I've been out and about in Peterborough. One of the things that people tell me

01:18time and time again is this concern about litter, about fly tipping, about

01:22antisocial behaviour in general of course. It's up to this government, us as a whole

01:27team, locally and nationally, trying to work together to solve that.

01:30Any thoughts on how you tackle this problem? How you stop people just throwing their cans and wrappers on the ground?

01:38So I'm really encouraged by what I've heard from Steve today. Things like the

01:44deposit return scheme I think are a really important step forward. We know there's more

01:48to do, we're talking about what those next steps might be and I'm interested to hear

01:52what proposals might be made. I think initiatives like this locally are really

01:56important as well and it's really important that all of us as local

02:00politicians are involved in this because it's important to stand alongside our

02:04community and show that we're all working together for this.

02:18okay

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