Motion · S5M-17173 · 3 May 2019
Deposit Return Scheme
The motion
That the Parliament recognises what it sees as the highly-innovative deposit return trial project that is being run by the Nisa convenience store and Post Office in the Uddingston and Bellshill constituency and is supported by the Scottish Grocers Federation; understands that it has seen high levels of returned containers, which produce very high quality recyclate; welcomes the news that an extremely high number of customers are donating their reclaimed deposit to St Andrew's Hospice, which is the project's charity partner; understands however that the inclusion of glass in any national deposit system would pose significant challenges for small retailers in terms of larger and more expensive reverse vending machines being required for an automated take-back approach and cause problems with storage, space and safe handling of glass in-store if a manual take-back approach is used; hopes that this issue is taken into account, and sends its best wishes to all involved with the Uddingston and Bellshill-based pilot.
Supporters (15)
- Kenneth Gibson No Party Affiliation 3 May 2019
- Jenny Gilruth Scottish National Party 3 May 2019
- Bill Kidd 3 May 2019
- Stuart McMillan Scottish National Party 3 May 2019
- David Torrance Scottish National Party 3 May 2019
- Maureen Watt 3 May 2019
- Emma Harper 4 May 2019
- Sandra White 6 May 2019
- Fulton MacGregor Scottish National Party 8 May 2019
- Joan McAlpine 8 May 2019
- Gil Paterson 9 May 2019
- Anas Sarwar 9 May 2019
- Gillian Martin Scottish National Party 10 May 2019
- Tom Arthur Scottish National Party 14 May 2019
- Margaret Mitchell 15 May 2019
Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.