UK Government will permit Scottish deposit return scheme – but without glass

UK ministers have confirmed Scotland’s deposit return scheme can go ahead but have insisted there is “insufficient justification” for glass bottles to be included.

But her Green Party colleague at Holyrood Mark Ruskell accused the UK Government of “environmental blackmail”. In their letter to Mr Yousaf – received by the Scottish First Minister late on Friday – the UK ministers said there had been “strong representations” from both the hospitality sector and distilleries about the impact “on trade and in particular consumer choice created by permanently different arrangements on glass” in different parts of the UK.

The Scottish Government has also noted all but six of the 51 deposit return schemes operating elsewhere in theinclude glass, adding that forcing Scotland to remove it from its scheme would mean recycling rates for glass bottles remain at an “unacceptable” 63%. “We have listened to these concerns and that is why we have accepted the Scottish Government’s request for a UK Internal Market exclusion on a temporary and limited basis to ensure the Scottish Government’s scheme aligns with planned schemes for the rest of the UK.

Gavin Pennington, of the BSDA, said its members had “long supported the introduction of an industry-led, interoperable DRS run on a not-for-profit basis to help support a circular economy, reducing litter and increasing recycling”.

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