Singapore | Resource Sustainability (Amendment) Bill introducing a beverage container return scheme

Title of document
Resource Sustainability (Amendment) Bill

Description
The Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment and the National Environment Agency will be introducing a beverage container return scheme (otherwise commonly known as a Deposit Refund Scheme, Container Deposit Scheme or Bottle Bill) for Singapore. Under the scheme, a small deposit will be applied to certain beverage containers when consumers buy a pre-packaged beverage. Consumers can then claim a deposit refund by returning their empty beverage container to a designated return point. The beverage producers (i.e., importers, manufacturers) will pay for and/or run the scheme for the collection and recycling of the returned empty beverage containers. To help consumers identify containers covered under the Scheme, beverage containers must be labelled with a deposit mark. Otherwise, refunds could be wrongly claimed on beverage containers where a deposit was not paid in the first place, such as those bought overseas. The deposit mark will also facilitate the return of containers at manual return point locations.

Notifying member: Singapore

Notification: G/TBT/N/SGP/67

Objective tag
Protection of the environment (TBT)

Timing:

• Submission: N/A
• Reception: N/A
• Distribution: 23/11/2022
• Final date for comments: N/A
• Proposed date of adoption: N/A