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

2 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

2 letters
DateDirectionTitle
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…