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IRN-BRU is to stop paying back 30p for returning its bottles, it was revealed today.

Drinks giant Barr said it will continue to sell the nation's other favourite drink in glass bottles.

The firm said the push by eco-friendly parents to recycle their Irn Bru bottles meant the end of an era for the cash refund after 110 years.

The Barr’s board decided to end the 30p deposit scheme at a meeting and told shopkeepers yesterday.

The last day to get money back on a juice bottle will be December 31.

Boss Robin Barr, one of only three people to know the secret recipe for Irn-Bru, said they would still use glass because it retained the fizz better, but the drink would now come in recyclable glass instead.

He told the Sun: “I am very sad about this because there is an emotional attachment to the bottles.

“Personally I could never throw a 30p bottle in a bin. I’m Scottish by birth and an accountant by trade, so I still think 30p looks like a jolly good reward. But obviously it isn’t enough.

“And people’s social conscience is not being troubled when they put bottles in the bin because they know it is going off to be recycled.”

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