{"id":498117,"date":"2026-03-27T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498117\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:44:19","slug":"glass-deposit-return-scheme-approved-by-senedd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498117\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass deposit return scheme approved by Senedd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce3gkp2w2l3o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hospitality, retail and drinks bosses have previously warned<\/a> that the policy could raise drink prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of the Welsh Parliament approved the legislation by 41 votes to 17 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking after the vote in the Senedd, Deputy First Minister Irranca-Davies, who is responsible for climate change policy, called it &#8220;a significant moment for Wales&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;International evidence shows a deposit return scheme can tackle litter, improve on the go recycling and further reduce waste,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This will keep valuable materials in circulation for longer &#8211; building on the world-leading recycling system Wales has already developed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I look forward to working closely with businesses, local authorities and communities as we move towards implementation in 2027.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said it would appoint a &#8220;Deposit Management Organisation&#8221; to run the scheme so that it can be ready for October 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that it will also look at how reusable drinks containers could be included alongside single-use deposit items, &#8220;helping to reduce waste and support a more circular economy&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hospitality, retail and drinks bosses have previously warned that the policy could raise drink prices. Members of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-498117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}