Customers in England will have to pay a deposit when they buy single use glass and plastic bottles and steel and aluminium cans.
The UK consumers use 13 billion plastic drink bottles a year with more than 3 billion not recycled and 15 million bottles dropped as litter or put in landfill every day.
Environment Secretary Michael Gove said "We need to see a change in attitudes and behaviour and the evidence shows that reward and return schemes are a powerful agent of change.”