Scottish Secretary Alister Jack wants Rishi Sunak to stand by the decision to exclude glass from the Scottish scheme.
The UK government wrote to the Scottish government last week granting a partial exemption to the Internal Market Act which would exclude glass containers from the DRS - which is due to go live in Scotland in March next year.
"We've given the exclusion and there are four conditions in that exclusion which allow the schemes to work across the United Kingdom," he said.The DRS would see customers given money back by returning empty bottles "If I get off the train in Carlisle and buy some recyclable material and it's 10p in Carlisle and 20p in Dumfries I double my money. That makes no sense."Mr Jack added: "You have to protect internal markets and not have disruption to the drinks industry. French wine producers have told us they wouldn't be relabelling just for Scotland for glass. It was too small a market so they would sell their wine elsewhere.
A spokesman said: "Circularity Scotland has consistently stated that the Scottish Deposit Return Scheme has set a target of 90% for the remelting and reuse of glass from the scheme's launch, rising to 95% post-launch. Any claims to the contrary are totally inaccurate. "Regrettably, specific passages of this letter were leaked to the media misrepresenting C&C's position on DRS.
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