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 DemocratSouth 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 Creagh
Through 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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