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The final countdown... to Simpler Recycling
4 Feb 2025
Tom McBeth, LARAC Policy Officer

We are now into February, just two months away from the first definitive steps to implementing Simpler Recycling in England, but what has 2025 brought us so far? For better or worse, Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) looks set to happen from October 2027, in England and Northern Ireland at least, with the legislation having been passed in late January...

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