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Next steps for deposit return schemes

Inquiry

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.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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Correspondence

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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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HC 137
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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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HC 1221
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Oral evidence transcripts

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17 March 2021
Inquiry Next steps for deposit return schemes
Witnesses British Plastics Federation (BPF), Alupro, and British Glass
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17 March 2021
Inquiry Next steps for deposit return schemes
Witnesses LARAC (The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee), Veolia, and Reloop
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24 March 2021
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Witnesses Association of Convenience Stores, CPRE, and Coca Cola Partners GB
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Written evidence

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Tetra Pak (DRS0085)
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Bryson Recycling (DRS0079)
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LARAC (The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee) (DRS0080)
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