A Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland: Final Business Regulatory Impact Assessment
This document is a revised version of the final Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA) published by the Scottish Government on 16/03/20. It reflects changes made to the design of DRS by The Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Amendment Regulations 2022 laid in Parliament on 15/12/21.
Footnotes
3. https://www.gov.scot/programme-for-government/
4. Making Things Last: a circular economy strategy for Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
5. Towards a Litter Free Scotland
7. OSPAR
9. DEFRA
10. EU Circular Economy Package
11. Climate Change Plan: The Third Report on Proposals and Policies 2018-2032
12. Marine Litter and Microplastics
13. Management of Marine Debris
14. UN Sustainable Development Goals
15. EU Circular Economy package
16. Kantar Worldpanel for Zero Waste Scotland
17. Green Book
18. Green Book
19. DRS FBC
20. We are aware that some in industry have been exploring alternative values for some of these assumptions. See Annex F for more details.
21. In the Belgian EPR, for example, stakeholders agree on the average annual costs for collecting and sorting household packaging. This falls under the remit of the scheme's regulatory body.
22. Defra
23. The Deposit and Return Scheme for Scotland Regulations 2020
24. Competition Impact Assessment
25. Completing Competition Assessments in Impact Assessments
26. Scottish Licensed Trade News in conjunction with CGA
27. Scottish Government (2019) Food and Drink
28. Export Statistics Scotland 2017
29. Brewing and Distilling in Scotland - Economic Facts and Figures, Scottish Parliament
30. British Soft Drinks Association for 2016
31. Multiple groups are chains of convenience shops, based on common ownership of shops. Examples include Tesco Express and Little Waitrose.
32. Symbol groups are a form of franchise, where the shops themselves are independently owned but are supplied by the franchise and trade under a common brand. Examples include Costcutter, NISA and Spar.
33. See Annex C Table 2
34. Nielson data for Zero Waste Scotland
35. Recycling: Lithuania deposit scheme exceeds all expectations
36. LetsRecycle (extracted on 1/3/2019)
37. British Soft Drinks Association for 2016. Data does not differentiate between aluminium and steel can containers, or different types of glass or PET plastic. These are therefore aggregate figures.
38. Provided that they have checked the symbol or barcode, retailers would not be liable for any costs associated with fraud or counterfeit and no competition impacts are anticipated in this regard.
39. Deposit Systems for One-Way Beverage Containers: Global Overview 2016, CM Consulting.
40. Envipco
41. ACS Local Shop Report 2018
42. Kantar Worldpanel for Zero Waste Scotland
43. Supermarkets includes big 4: Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, ASDA
44. What can England and Scotland learn from deposit return schemes overseas?, Recycling and Waste World
45. ACS Local Shop Report 2018
46. Based on a 90% return rate.
47. Kantar Worldpanel for Zero Waste Scotland
48. Options and Feasibility of a European Refund System for Metal Beverage Cans
49. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
50. Google Maps
51. Electoral wards: East Berwickshire, Mid Berwickshire, Kelso and District, Jedburgh and District, Annandale East and Eskdale, and Annandale South.
52. Location of stores: ASDA, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsburys, Lidl, Aldi, Distances in driving miles: Google Maps
54. Scotland Census
55. Ibid
58. Zero Waste Scotland Kantar Data
59. British Soft Drink Association for 2016
60. Based on the number of containers sold in Scotland in 2017, assuming a deposit of £0.20
61. ONS data for 2018
62. ONS data for 2016
64. Deposit Refund System in Spain
65. See Annex C Table 4
66. See Annex C Table 5
67. Oxford Economics and HMRC
68. A scan of supermarkets' online catalogues, including Tesco, Sainsbury's, and ALDI, was undertaken to assess common price points for budget (e.g store brand) and premium type goods (e.g. brand name) for each of these categories at the particular size of 1L. Demand effects were modelled using own-price elasticities sourced from HMRC and Oxford Economic studies.
69. DEFRA
70. Pure Juices account for 6.6% of cold non-alcoholic drinks sold, smoothies 1.3% and juice drinks 8.9%.
71. ZWS Modelling using Kantar Data
72. Oxford Economics for price elasticity. A scan of supermarkets' online catalogues, including Tesco, Sainsbury's, and ALDI, was undertaken to assess average price points for pure juices at the particular size of 1L.
73. https://www.gov.scot/publications/business-regulatory-impact-assessments-toolkit/pages/9/
74. Refer to Annex D.2 for a copy of the forms tested
75. Refer to Annex D.3 for a copy of the updated forms
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