Humza Yousaf has given his clearest indication yet that a flagship recycling initiative will be scrapped unless there is a last minute u-turn from the UK Government.
The First Minister said today he "struggled" to see how the deposit return scheme could progress if glass containers were not included.
Yousaf wrote to Rishi Sunak last weekend to demand the Prime Minister reconsider the intervention ahead of a meeting of the Scottish Government Cabinet on Tuesday morning. "We potentially risk jobs and investment. I would not be confident in the UK Government not throwing other road blocks in the way to do everything they can to frustrate the process and delay the implementation date.
He said: "I think we are at a point now where the scheme is on the brink, there does need to be negotiation now around the detail of the UK Government’s letter and its conditions that it’s put down.
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