Next steps for deposit return schemes

Environmental Audit Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 12 Feb 2021 Closed: 30 Nov 2021 Parliament page
The Environmental Audit Committee is examining how deposit return schemes for drinks containers might be introduced so as to increase the proportion of such packaging which is recycled and to reduce the environmental damage from littering.
2 Oral sessions
2 Letters
2 Events
Activity timeline 6 events
21 May
2021
Correspondence
24 Mar
2021
Oral evidence
24 Mar
2021
Correspondence
24 Mar
2021
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Virtual meeting
17 Mar
2021
Oral evidence
17 Mar
2021
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · Virtual meeting
Oral evidence sessions 2 sessions
24 Mar 2021
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Panel 1; Panel 2
Chris Preston · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs James Lowman · Association of Convenience Stores Jim Fox · Coca Cola Partners GB Maddy Haughton-Boakes · CPRE Rebecca Pow MP · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
17 Mar 2021
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Panel 1; Panel 2
Dr Nick Kirk · British Glass Lee Marshall · LARAC (The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee) Martin Curtois · Veolia Mr Barry Turner · British Plastics Federation (BPF) Mr Rick Hindley · Alupro Samantha Harding · Reloop
Correspondence 2 letters
21 May 2021 Chair to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with an attached Committee response to Defra’s consultation on Introducing a Deposit Return Scheme in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, second consultation, dated 20 May 2021
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24 Mar 2021 To committee Letter from Gillian Martin MSP, Convener of the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee (Scottish Parliament) regarding deposit return schemes, dated 24 March 2021
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