The company running Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) initially suggested a later start date to ministers.
David Harris, chief executive of Circularity Scotland, told MSPs there is a “great deal to do” before the initiative is due to come into force on 16 August, but insisted the not-for-profit body is “working round the clock to deliver”.
He described the start date as an “immovable object” as he told MSPs on the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee that the organisation had initially identified September or October to bring in the scheme – conceding even these had a “degree of risk”.
