Karen Graley appointed Head of EPR Producer Responsibility Organisation
Karen Graley has been announced as Head of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme’s Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO).
Ambition 2030: Packaging
The UK Government is introducing a suite of policy changes for the management of packaging and packaging waste known as the Collection and Packaging Reforms. These reforms focus around three central pillars: Extended Producer Responsibility, a Deposit Return Scheme and the introduction of Simpler Recycling, to bring a national approach to collection of waste and recyclable materials.
Industry fully supports the objectives behind these reforms to improve circular outcomes for packaging, building on the progress started by the Plastic Packaging Tax. Part of this will be achieved by greater investment in and optimisation of collection and recycling infrastructure, scaling up the ambition started by the UK Plastics Pact by WRAP in 2018 as a voluntary initiative to improve the circularity of plastics. The UKPP is currently being updated for 2030.
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Packaging
The UK Government and the Devolved Administrations are making a series of policy changes for the management of packaging and packaging waste known as the Collection and Packaging Reforms.
Extended Producer Responsibility
Food and drink manufacturers are keen that the implementation of EPR is as successful as it can be and that the risk of disproportionate cost being passed through to consumers is minimised.
Deposit Return Scheme
Deposit return schemes are used across the world as a way of encouraging more people to recycle drinks containers, such as bottles and cans.