PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Deposit Return Schemes: Glass (25 April 2022)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will include glass in the deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by:
Mohammad Yasin (Labour)
Asked by:
Mohammad Yasin (Labour)
Answer
The full response to our consultation on a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) will be published in due course.
However, as part of our response to the consultation on Extended Producer Responsibility, we announced any DRS in England and Northern Ireland would not include glass.
Concerns were raised that including glass in a DRS risked reducing the amount of glass available to remelt, whilst making reverse vending machines larger and more complicated, as well as causing extra risk to both shop staff and consumers.
Glass will be subject to regulation via Extended Producer Responsibility and continue to be recycled at the kerbside.
Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
28 April 2022
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