'This would have cost people like me our livelihoods.”
A businessman who took the Scottish Government to court over its ill-fated Deposit Return Scheme says he feels 'vindicated' after winning his legal challenge.
Larger stores, shopping centres and community hubs would operate reverse vending machines for people to return their containers, but Mr Majid believed the cost burden on smaller firms of buying, installing and running these would have been unsustainable.He added: “It’s a huge relief that the court agreed with me – I now feel truly vindicated by my decision to launch this legal challenge.
The businessman says he is proud to have led the fight to protect others shopkeepers trying to make ends meet.He explained: “It was a stand for all small business that would have been left with the burden of hiring the machine and operating it at a loss. In principle the scheme is right, but it needs to be reviewed and reimagined. I hope this is a lesson learned - and the judge clearly agreed with me.
They said Circularity Scotland’s plan for it to be determined by the costs incurred by every outlet dealing with returned items was wrong. In his written decision, he said: “It is accepted by the respondent that it has no statutory power to set the return handling fee for any return of point operator.
He added: “I based the £1,000-a-week figure on the outlay of buying, installing and running a reverse vending machine which would store the containers and provide the money back. This equipment costs somewhere between £8,000 and £15,000 and we would never see a return on that. It would have put some people out of business right from the very outset.”
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