In Aarhus, Denmark a successful scheme which collects and washes cups for a small deposit has stopped more than one million ...

A new guidebook has been launched in Europe to help countries improve recycling of drink containers like plastic bottles and cans. The Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) Playbook, published by Natural ...

The Polish government has announced a deposit-return scheme will come into force on 1 October, 2025. The Ministry of Climate ...

08 April 2019, Berlin: A man puts a deposit bottle into a deposit bottle machine in a supermarket. Photo: Monika Skolimowska/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Monika ...

Seaside litter-pickers say people need a greater incentive to stop dropping litter. Volunteers from the Brightening up Bridlington group do their best to keep the resort and beaches clean and tidy, ...

Deposit return schemes (DRS) are cited as a solution to help reduce litter and drive up collection and recycling rates, with about 90 percent polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic drink bottle ...

A campaigner for a national plastic bottle deposit return scheme is one of the winners in the BBC Three Counties Make a Difference Awards 2025. Richard Walker, co-founder of the Aylesbury Wombles, ...

Sharon George receives funding from Research England. Unrecycled drink containers are a huge problem in the UK. A survey by Planet Patrol, a non-profit organisation, found that the drinks industry was ...

British consumers will soon face higher costs on drinks, with the promise of earning money back on returning their plastic ...

Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) has been delayed. The scheme, which had been due to start in August, will not now begin until 1 March 2024. The delay is proving controversial, with many ...