Environmental protection Scotland

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), National Waste Strategy, Scotland (1999), www.sepa.org.uk... 

Authorities, Friends of the Earth Scotland, Scottish Retail Consortium, and The Scottish Environment Protection Agency for direction and support during the project. The report used LCA to evaluate the environmental effects of grocery bag consumer choices. The report found that assessing a tax would reduce the use and prevalence of plastic in the environment and that consumption of non-renewable energy, solid waste, GHG emissions, and eutrophication of lakes and rivers would be significantly less (Cadman et al. 2005). 

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