Question reference: S5W-33510
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 24 November 2020
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Current status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 December 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on glass that is in a naturally broken state being collected through the deposit return scheme (DRS).
Answer
The Full Business Case Stage 1 for Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), published on 19 May 2019 ( https://www.gov.scot/publications/deposit-return-scheme-scotland-full-business-case-stage-1/ ), was developed on the basis of glass being collected whole under Scotland’s DRS. Any scheme administrator(s) wishing to adopt a different approach would need to ensure it complied with the duty under section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to take all reasonable steps to handle the containers in a manner that would promote high-quality recycling.