Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 14172

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 impact of introducing a return-to-retail deposit return scheme on local council revenue streams.

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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