Sturgeon's husband arrested.

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Try being related to a SNP MP- fucking mortifying

I can imagine @Whatthediddlyfeck . I hope your relly has a plan for what they might do next after being booted out of parliament.

Find it outraging to say no we should pay more tax and we will charge more tax.......how about spending the budget they have and get given on what its supposed to be rather then spaffing money up the wall due to their cock ups, legal cases and inept running!!!!

Love it 😂

Although he does go on to say he’s going to speak about his vision for Scotland - which hopefully involves one run by people who don’t keep getting arrested for having their fingers in the till.

Or an episode of The Apprentice. 'This week, Lord Sugar asks the budding apprentices to design a glass bottle return scheme that, as usual, is poorly designed, badly executed and has the decimal point in the wrong place.'

Can't find quickly how much money has been spent/wasted on this bottle return thing. But it's not 50p, is it. Money which could have been spent on schools or nurses or fixing the fecking potholes.

England, Wales and NI have announced a similar scheme in 2025 but oh no, "Circular Economy" monitor Lorna thingy wanted to be first. Because Indy and that. 🙄

In principle I think a deposit scheme on bottles is a GOOD THING. But the SNP trying to introduce it 2 years before the other countries we are joined on to geographically is just stupid. As is ploughing in regardless even though small businesses said it would send them to the wall.

The Greens really are pulling all the strings at the moment, aren't they?

I still don't see how the bottle scheme will work.
Tons more plastic is collected for recycling every year than is actually recycled is it not?

The glass schemes worked because it was relatively local and the bottles were reused.

Yes we put all glass, aluminium cans and plastic bottles (and lots of other glass and plastic besides) in the recycling which is picked up fortnightly.

This new scheme would just mean that the local councils are off the hook, and that we'd have to (make a special trip in the car) to take all the recycling ... somewhere.

we'd have to (make a special trip in the car) to take all the recycling ... somewhere.

Rather ironic @KnittingNeedles

Sir Alan would have fired the Greens in episode one 😆 How entertaining would the interview episode be with Humza and Kate?🤣🤣🤣 @ThatsGenderwang

What I mean. @HyuNis is that there is a well-established system for recycling plastic, glass, aluminium. If people are not engaging with that system, then they need to look at WHY, not throwing the system out and replacing it with a new one which nobody can see the benefit of.

The Sainsbury's at Braehead has one of those machines which is supposed to pay you 5p or whatever for every can/bottle you put in. DD has been working at Braehead for 18 months, I take her into Sainsbury's every Sunday to buy her lunch and I think i've seen it working twice.

I'm related to one but by marriage only so that doesn't count. My husband however is properly related and mortified.

I recommend today’s episode of the News Agents podcast. The SNP is top story

@KnittingNeedles exactly.
If people can't put their recycling in the bin at the door then they aren't going to bother for a couple of pound at the shops.

While to the consumer they'll get their deposit back buy who is funding the admin of the whole scheme.
Small shops especially every square foot matters, how much space will the recycling bin take up?

My mother works for a wholesaler and apparently they are to be a hub for local stores to use as their deposit centre.

don’t think they can object to it

Am I completely misremembering this, but was there not a drinks can return scheme at some point in the 80s?

I'm not talking about the glass ginger bottle returns. They're well remembered and talked about.

I have a vague memory of collecting cans for the money and practically fighting folk for them is that just my memory plying tricks on me?

And you mustn’t squash the cans or bottles or the machines won’t recognise them.

Do we all need to wear a merkin if NS is arrested in the morning?

The '80s various charities collected aluminium cans. I think Blue Peter might have done an appeal for them too.

The metal cans have a scrap value even if its not much.

I'm not so sure that their is any value / money in plastic.

Is the bottle recycling scheme voluntary? If not, what’s to stop people putting plastic bottles and cans at the bottom of the recycling and then covering them over with the rest of the rubbish if they’re not bothered about getting any money back?

That had occurred to me too!

The DRS doesn’t cover all plastics and glass, only drinks bottles as far as I am aware. So not baby food jars, Gu ramakins, pasta sauce jars, ketchup bottles, jam jars… so presumably the councils will need to keep everything in place for glass and plastics recycling but for a lower (less economic?) quantity.

Which means it's not even going to save the councils any money. Costs as much to empty a half empty bin as it does a full one.

Can you imagine the ques at a daft machines giving the equivalent of "please put your item in the bagging area" when its not the exact weight that it should be. I'll assume you have to scan the barcode them put the bottle in the machine, you can't just scan the bar codes or people will scan the same bottle multiple times.

It’s really just asking for the general
waste to be filled isn’t it

One small point in its defence but not all areas get glass collected as part of their recycling. We already need to make a special journey in the car to recycle it.