The UK Government has been urged to explain the 'striking coincidence' of a £20,000 donation from a trade body after changing their position on including glass in deposit return schemes
“Not only is it vital for public trust for decision making to be transparent and decision makers to be accountable, but this change in policy also risks substantial costs to the public purse.”CommonsPhilip Hollobone, MP for Kettering, told the Commons that the case for excluding glass was made by lobbyists who had a “vested interest” in ensuring it was not part of the scheme.
“We agree that a UK-wide Deposit Return Scheme makes sense, but the UK government should be raising their ambition to the same level as Scotland and Wales, not dragging them down,” he told the Sunday National. In Scotland, Tory MSP Maurice Golden, who infamously tweeted that to do a DRS “properly” it must include glass in 2019, has now changed his position in line with the UK Government’s.
Golden said: “If the Scottish Government wants to include glass in DRS, it needs to go back to the drawing board and come up with some firm proposals that takes businesses and consumers along too.
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