Question reference: S6W-07118
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 6 April 2022
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Current status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 April 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is aware of any country in the world that has introduced, at the same time and on the same day, a deposit return scheme covering plastic cans and glass, and what its position is on whether the reported potential operational problems, costs and difficulties facing Scotland, in light of the introduction on 16 August 2023 of a scheme covering all three types of items, carry too much risk to be a prudent course of action for it to take.
Answer
Our Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) is an important part of our response to the global climate emergency and the member is right that our scheme will be ambitious by international standards. The implementation date of 16 August 2023 was determined after extensive industry engagement and based on feedback from an independent Gateway Review and we consider it to strike the right balance between being stretching and also being deliverable .