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A UK deposit return scheme for recycling drinks bottles has been delayed to 2027, meaning it will not be in place until almost a decade after it was proposed.

He said the delay was because additional time was needed to synchronise the policy of the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales with that in England.

The scheme is intended to cut litter on land and sea by paying consumers a small cash sum to return their bottles and cans.

Steve Reed, the shadow environment secretary, said: “We’ve gone through four prime ministers since the Conservative government first promised a deposit return scheme for recycling bottles.

The Conservatives simply don’t care that plastic bottles end up littering our streets, parks, rivers and seas.

Labour will work across Britain and with business to bring in a deposit return scheme that will stop this waste and clean up our environment.”

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