Lorna Slater faces renewed calls to resign after the company set-up to oversee a flagship national recycling scheme was forced to call in administrators.
Circularity Scotland was meant to take charge of the deposit return scheme but is now on the brink of collapse after the controversial policy was shelved this month.
She again blamed the firm's demise on the UK Government's insistence that glass be excluded from the DRS. "This is an unforgiveable consequence of the UK government's 11th hour intervention which undermined our deposit return scheme, made progress impossible and is now resulting in these jobs being lost."
The DRS was supposed to launch in March next year having already been delayed from a planned launch date in August. "Circularity Scotland themselves, like the UK government and other stakeholders, were absolutely clear that the scheme could have remained viable and gone ahead without glass, but instead she pulled the plug.
"Earlier this year the drinks industry raised concerns about the Scottish Government’s deposit return scheme differing from plans in the rest of the UK.
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