{"id":592351,"date":"2026-05-19T11:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592351\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:25:15","slug":"glass-deposit-scheme-for-wales-risks-major-problems-for-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592351\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass deposit scheme for Wales &#8216;risks major problems&#8217; for retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">DRS are widely used internationally including in Germany, several Scandinavian countries and, more recently, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensinformation.ie\/en\/environment\/waste-and-recycling\/deposit-return-scheme\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Republic of Ireland, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keep Wales Tidy said the statistics showed significantly reduced drinks-container litter, improved the quality of collected materials, and enabled higher-value recycling or reuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire said he felt this highlighted the economic benefits that could come from implementing a DRS for glass items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The quality of the glass is quite poor when it comes to remanufacturing bottles and businesses desperately need that inflow of material,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;DRS has provided that. So it actually does in the long term drive down costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire said he understood the anxiety among small and medium enterprises as it represented a &#8220;big shift in the way that industries do things&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But actually, there&#8217;s investments in the circular economy in Wales and across the UK. It&#8217;s an investment in cleaner communities,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the scheme is being launched next year, Derbyshire pointed out that it featured an &#8220;incredibly generous&#8221; four-year transition period for glass, to help producers and retailers adapt to the new requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRS are widely used internationally including in Germany, several Scandinavian countries and, more recently, the Republic of Ireland,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-592351","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\/592351","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=592351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}