Under The Counter was shocked to discover that UK DMO had appointed two neds to its board.
Turns out his concern was misplaced, however, as the neds in question were actually non-executive directors and not a brace of antisocial Burberry brand ambassadors.
With nearly five decades of experience between them in all sorts of important-sounding stuff that will no doubt make the Deposit Return Scheme run like a well-oiled clockwork greyhound, it’s fair to say Juliet Sotnick and Lynda Heywood are unlikely to be found hanging about causing bother outside c-stores of an evening.
It remains to be seen how much bother the Deposit Return Scheme will cause inside stores though. If it even happens, that is. Scotland’s version has already been booted down the road more times than UTC’s retirement date.
Anyway, the pair’s appointment got the Auld Boy thinking that the Deposit Return Scheme was hoovering up abbreviations like a demented Dyson on steroids.
There’s DRS for starters, run by UK DMO and tripped up in Scotland thanks to UKIMA wrangling. Suppliers are up to their oxters in EPR and PPT, while stores taking back bottles (PET, not HDPE, obviously) will need an RVM clever enough to swallow every SKU in sight — and probably a forest of POS to explain the whole palaver to shoppers.
FFS.
