Select Committee · Environmental Audit Committee
Next steps for deposit return schemes
Status: Closed
Opened: 12 Feb 2021
Closed: 30 Nov 2021
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.
Oral evidence sessions
| Date | Witnesses | |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Mar 2021 | 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 | View ↗ |
| 17 Mar 2021 | 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 | View ↗ |
Correspondence
| Date | Direction | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 21 May 2021 | — | Chair to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Envi… |
| 24 Mar 2021 | To cttee | Letter from Gillian Martin MSP, Convener of the Environment, Climate Change and… |