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Seòmar agus comataidhean

Deposit Return Scheme

  • Submitted by: Richard Lyle, Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2019
  • Motion reference: S5M-17173

That the Parliament recognises what it sees as the highly-innovative deposit return trial project that is being run by the Nisa convenience store and Post Office in the Uddingston and Bellshill constituency and is supported by the Scottish Grocers Federation; understands that it has seen high levels of returned containers, which produce very high quality recyclate; welcomes the news that an extremely high number of customers are donating their reclaimed deposit to St Andrew's Hospice, which is the project's charity partner; understands however that the inclusion of glass in any national deposit system would pose significant challenges for small retailers in terms of larger and more expensive reverse vending machines being required for an automated take-back approach and cause problems with storage, space and safe handling of glass in-store if a manual take-back approach is used; hopes that this issue is taken into account, and sends its best wishes to all involved with the Uddingston and Bellshill-based pilot.


Supported by: Tom Arthur, Kenneth Gibson, Jenny Gilruth, Emma Harper, Bill Kidd, Fulton MacGregor, Gillian Martin, Joan McAlpine, Stuart McMillan, Margaret Mitchell, Gil Paterson, Anas Sarwar, David Torrance, Maureen Watt, Sandra White