Other commentators have put the deflationary effect of this tax this year at only £135 million, which is the amount of net non-returnable receipts this year.
Now we can get them in non-returnable glass bottles, or in cans, or in one-trip plastic containers.
Is he aware that many supermarkets are putting a great deal of pressure on manufacturers to go for non-returnable bottles?
Does he agree that it is extraordinary that the main form of finance for students comes as non-returnable grants from the state?
The number of non-returnable plastic containers for sprays and fertilisers which are durable and unsightly is increasing.
Beautiful parts of our coast are ruined by old mattresses littered about, empty tin cans and non-returnable bottles.
But with the movement to recycle waste products, skips are increasingly being used for the recovery of non-returnable bottles and other classes of waste product.
There is also the matter of non-returnable deposits.
