Consultation launched on Deposit Return Scheme for Wales

The irony is we once had a deposit based system, where you could return the empties and recover the deposit and the bottles were washed and reused. It was not just in Wales but British Isles wide (including on Pepsi and Coke bottles). This was system destroyed with the demise of the independent community grocery shop. Where family owned shops were replaced by large supermarkets. Trade and the economy became its trend towards monopoly capitalism. The demise of the green groceries caused my grandfather's market gardening business to collapse with loss of customers for our produce. Since then the economy continued to concentrate wealth into fewer and fewer hands. This is the cause of falling living standards of ordinary people. As Gary Stevenson says in his blogs, the solution is to equalise the wealth held by taxing personal wealth held above £15 million per person. ...And not tax family farms. The point where people start to pay tax is far too low. Even people earning less than the living wage are charged income tax. Then there is Council Tax and VAT. How can you justify it ? We must have a more egalitarian capitalist system.

Putting a low deposit on glass, plastic bottles and tin/aluminium cans will not work. People will not bother to return them for 5, 10 or even 20p. A deposit of £1 is the lowest in my mind to encourage people to return them.

Seems to work in a many EU states and they have been at it for some time. Even have an automated system that sort your returns (within reason, glass, plastic etc.), dividend in vouchers or cash or send it to the local charity. Why are we lagging in the UK is a big question.

If the packaging is so valuable then people may be tempted to return and claim deposit. However I am doubtful that any modest deposit will motivate many people to stop dumping their rubbish in public places. Out and about on Monday morning and horrified to see the amount of plastic, glass and cardboard packaging left on car parks, parkland and other places where the "herd" had visited over the weekend. We've got far too many slobs among us who think that dropping empties anywhere is O.K.

To be fair, we're quite some way behind the rest of Europe on this, so excellent news on some progress. Imagine a world where we have drinks delivered by electric vehicles in completely reuseuble containers and kids learn the value of earning pocket money by being given an incentive to recycle!..... Anyone else remember keeping the Corona money in a jar and feeling like a millionaire when it eventually filled??

Although a welcomed return this is nothing new. Personally it was a mistake scrapping this in the first place. As a child used to do this in the late 1970s when I with friends used to search for pop bottles dumped returning them to my local newsagents for 10p. Having large plastic bottles then was unheard of with most pop and milk in glass bottles. And since manufacturers favoured plastic with its increased capacity and profit margins has resulted in the devastation to wildlife and damage to the environment we see now.

I have just returned from Hungary where you pay 50 Forints (10pence) deposit on all plastic bottles with the opportunity to use vouchers when returned in a local shop. It benefits the local shop as well as the environment

Just wants his photo on line. Deposit return will add to cost and admin. What is wrong with the system we already have Council recycling If it is a consultation where is the paperwork, doubt it is a consultation they have already made up their minds What is happening with the COVID enquiry when will the criminally incompetent going to be held to account. Time they were made accountable and stopped from living off public money

Please Welsh Government stop fiddling around there is absolutely nothing you can around climate change , you need to concentrate on what you can do to genuinely help your people day to day , it’s fantasy for those who believe in their own self importance.