Question reference: S5W-31523
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 2 September 2020
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Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 14 September 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-31163 by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 August 2020, whether decisions regarding deposit claim mechanisms, including digital solutions, will be a matter for the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) Administrator.
Answer
The response to question S5W-31163 made clear that we have no current plans to put in place a solution for returning containers via a smartphone or app as part of Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme. It would, however, be open to any scheme administrator(s) and/or return-point operators to consider the use of a digital solution (for example allowing consumers to choose to have their deposits reimbursed through an app) to support consumers in returning containers via a return point.