A £10,000 campaign is to be launched in Scotland as a bid to encourage Scots to become more energy efficient, it has been revealed.
According to the Edinburgh Evening News, the launch of the "Save it" campaign will reduce the energy bills of many homeowners across the country by featuring advets on busses, billboards and bus shelters across the city.
It also aims to promote a number of schemes avaliable for those who have difficulties in heating their homes. One of the schemes, offers Energy Saving Scotland interest-free "home loans."
The city's housing leader, Councillor Paul Edie said: "There are various grants out there available to homeowners, yet many probably don't know they exist.
"We hope this campaign will alert people to what is on offer and encourage them to actively seek out help.
"The grants available will help reduce energy consumption and help to tackle fuel poverty."
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They may be encouraged, but how long for? Wouldn't it just end up like some of the recycling schemes in London where you must separate plastics, paper, tins etc from your usual rubbish. People are being forced to do it, or must pay a fine if found having these materials in their bins. So by encouraging Scots to become more energy efficient, does this mean they may be fined if they don't? If not, then will they actually bother?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Mark! It would be a good £10,000 wasted on advertising when only a small proportion will actually do it. I think people should be forced to do these things.
ReplyDeleteI never used to recycle the things at home, like news papers, tins of baked beans, empty coke bottles etc, until we were threatened to be fined if otherwise.
For any scheme that's good for the earth, people should face fines. Otherwise they will carry on living their lives as usual. Most people don't like change, but if it involves having to fork out for carrying on putting everything in the bin, the chances are, they'd rather keep the money and deal with the changes.