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Deposit Return Schemes

Commons · Question 88029 · Tabled 4 Nov 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 13 Nov 2025

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Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2025 to Question 86440 on Deposit Return Schemes, if she will take steps to ensure the deposit return scheme allows (a) bottles and (b) other depos

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Answered by Mary Creagh, 13 Nov 2025

Thank you for your interest in the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). The objectives of DRS include boosting recycling levels, reducing littering, and offering greater opportunities to collect higher quality, uncontaminated materials in greater quantities. In p...