Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 14171
Deposit Return Schemes
Tabled: 13 November 2024
Answered: 19 November 2024
Question
Pippa Heylings
Liberal Democrat — South Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including a digital option in the UK’s deposit return scheme to enable consumers to recycle their in-scope containers from home
Answer
Mary CreaghThrough our regular industry engagement and international learnings from other schemes, there has been a broad consensus that a return to retail approach is the most effective way to launch a deposit return scheme (DRS) for drinks containers across the UK...
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