The UK government's decision to exclude glass from deposit return scheme casts doubt over Scottish plans.
, as businesses had already signed up to and spent money on a scheme including glass.
"Consumers are increasingly concerned and ultimately what I'm proposing is that we salvage the scheme. I think from listening to businesses that unfortunately does not include glass at this stage." She said: "Rishi Sunak, Alistair Jack even Douglas Ross all stood for election in 2019 on a manifesto that promised a deposit return scheme with glass. Now they have decided to remove glass from England's scheme alone, which is a change from what we had all agreed as four nations.
The deposit return scheme is the latest policy which sees the Scottish and UK governments butting heads.
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