This Bottle Scheme.

[The AuldYin]

Am I missing something? A crate of Coke is let's say £8 at Bookers, the Scots government proposes to add 20p on to each can making the cost £12.80 North of the border. What's to stop someone going over the border buying a slab of Coke at £8 and returning the empties North of the border and getting £4.80 for the empties? Or a retailer filling vans South of the border and charging his customers the extra 20p regardless?

[BCram]

Absolutely. This has been a mad scheme right from day one. Of course it should be a UK wide scheme. SNP were told that they would need to consider this very problem. They wanted to be first and prove that they could do it faster than UK. Scots Tories made exactly the same mistake when they volunteered to apply the poll tax in Scotland.

[The AuldYin]

Absolutely. This has been a mad scheme right from day one. Of course it should be a UK wide scheme. SNP were told that they would need to consider this very problem. They wanted to be first and prove that they could do it faster than UK. Scots Tories made exactly the same mistake when they volunteered to apply the poll tax in Scotland.

35 years? That's a long way back to find a comparison.

[Returnofrros]

More madness in Scotland I'm afraid.

Lorna slater makes the Asian supremacist look talented.

[jdfc]

You’d think companies would be making a lot of noise about it, we drink bottled water, you get 24 bottles for £4, under this scheme it will be £8.40, who’s going to pay that

[The AuldYin]

You’d think companies would be making a lot of noise about it, we drink bottled water, you get 24 bottles for £4, under this scheme it will be £8.40, who’s going to pay that

I think they've been warned about it's feasibility by just about everyone from politicians to experts in the trade but for some reason they refuse to listen. I don't think even Useless is fully behind it but desperately needs the Greens.

[BCram]

Who is going to pay for the actual scheme? Pay 20p get 20p back but someone will have to run it. If they have a not for profit company running it how much will that cost. Ceo £100k, marketing manager £50k, admin staff etc etc plus there is bound to be some payment to local authorities who will deal with the practicalities. Only income is the value of the recycled plastic and that will be based on the costs of conversion rather than any significant value in the individual bottles etc.

[Deeranged]

Who is going to pay for the actual scheme?

We are

[The AuldYin]

Maybe it's free like the prescription charges, or the buses.

[BCram]

We are

Yes. BUT you can't do anything about the company that has been contracted to organise this scheme. It is CALMAC again. There is something deeply flawed with the way policy is implemented in our country, and I mean UK not just Scotland. The purchase of PPE was largely privatised and look at the problems raised there. We need to find a way to change the way policy is implemented. NHS will go the same way, and I think we should be concerned about the principle of governments giving contracts to limited companies with no possible alternative option available if the company fails to deliver.