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DRS scheme applications

Creating a working DRS from scratch

6 October 2020
MSPs have signed off on deposit return scheme regulations for Scotland.

Deposit return is go in 25 months

1 June 2020
Industry leaders have voiced concerns over plans for a deposit return scheme.

Now not the time for DRS

1 June 2020
Deposit return schemes utilising reverse vending machines are already in use in a number of European countries.

Industry warns COVID crisis could spell DRS disaster

14 May 2020

Parliament signs off on DRS

13 May 2020
The group of MSPs backed glass.

DRS go ahead for glass bottles

3 January 2020
The Tomra M1 can handle glass and PET.

An RVM built for Scotland

3 January 2020
Broken glass

Glass could crash DRS

3 January 2020

Election: Industry calls for “frictionless trade”

13 December 2019
Envipco president Bob Lincoln (right) and Edinburgh South West MP Joanna Cherry watch school kids at the launch of the RVM trial

Date set for DRS

10 September 2019
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More RVMs roll out

1 September 2019
Extracts from FOI letters to Scottish Grocer

Industry rails against ScotGov’s DRS plan

1 July 2019
Linda and Dennis Williams of Premier Broadway, Edinburgh

RVM is a hit at Broadway Convenience

2 April 2019
Envipco president Bob Lincoln (right) and Edinburgh South West MP Joanna Cherry watch school kids at the launch of the RVM trial

A lot to learn from DRS trial

2 April 2019

Opinion split on DRS

21 February 2019

RVM boss has eye on c-stores

1 January 2019
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