SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes has pledged to pause the Scottish government's controversial bottle deposit return scheme if she is elected as first minister
'That is a huge warning light'Ms Forbes said:"Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, and I know that thousands of firms are still struggling to recover from COVID, Brexit and Tory-inflicted inflation."Small businesses want to do the right thing, but we only make it harder by introducing overly complex schemes and proposing to ban advertising for key Scottish industries.
"Cairngorm Brewery is a fabulous local business in the national park that takes its responsibilities to the environment seriously. But its director is telling me that costs are really tight, and the DRS is likely to put jobs at risk. "If that kind of situation is being replicated across other parts of Scotland, and it almost certainly is, that is a huge warning light that parts of the scheme need to be reworked."Ms Forbes speaking to Sky News at the start of her campaign trailMs Forbes also highlighted Knoydart Brewery which is based on a remote peninsula near Mallaig within her own constituency.
She said:"You can only get there by ferry, and there is no reverse vending machine at all. To expect people to travel over half an hour by boat to recycle is clearly not workable. "So what I'm saying is that the implementation of DRS needs to be paused and sense-checked, and that's what I'll do if I'm elected as leader.
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