Deposit return scheme? We need a global plastic waste treaty

IT’S hard to believe we’re still waiting. The plastic bottle, especially the water bottle, has long been symbol of the profligate disposability of our times – and yet, more than 10 years after a deposit return scheme was mooted, almost two decades after Germany introduced its version, we are still not quite there on it being rolled out in Scotland. Not only that, but hot on the heels of the news of the scheme’s delay till August 2023, we learn that it fails to include a digital syst

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