Hyndburn Council's sustainability boss has welcomed a pledge to implement legislation for a deposit return scheme for drinks ...

Ministers have pledged to end “throwaway society” as laws paving the way for a bottle-return scheme come into force on Monday ...

The grocery aisle is a dizzying array of colourful packaging, but most of it is made of virgin materials. So what happens to ...

A bottle-return scheme where people will be paid to hand in plastic, steel or aluminium for recycling at a collection point ...

The House of Commons voted 352 to 75, majority 277, in favour of the proposal designed to incentivise recycling of drinks ...

Glass bottles are excluded from the scheme due to ... with a flow of litter into our high streets and our rivers, and a deposit return scheme prevents that litter going to landfill.

A bottle-return scheme where people will be paid ... the former of which has seen an estimated 98 per cent return rate under its own deposit return scheme (DRS), in developing the programme.

The DRS, which does not cover glass bottles ... "I warmly welcome the introduction of the deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and cans. "This is a significant step forward in addressing ...

House of Commons voted 352 to 75 in favour of a deposit return scheme, with similar initiatives already found throughout ...