Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure the deposit return scheme for England, Wales and Northern Ireland operates in a manner that avoids contamination with other forms of packaging.

One of the objectives of the DRS is to offer a greater opportunity to collect higher quality, uncontaminated materials in greater quantities. By creating a separate waste stream for the materials in scope of the DRS (as opposed to them being collected at kerbside co-mingled with other recycled waste), we will be able to collect them to a high quality for reprocessing.