Numerous hospitality establishments are said to incur dual expenses for recycling. Credit: Adrian Tambo/Shutterstock. The UK government has agreed to investigate a new approach to the Extended ...

Consulting firm says packaging EPR system, pushed back to October 2025, ultimately could benefit from additional planning. While saying a one-year delay for a packaging EPR system in the U.K. could ...

UK drinks trade associations have urged the government to address “significant” issues with Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (EPR) scheme, warning the scheme is "flawed". In a letter, ...

UK retailers and food manufacturers are ramping up their efforts to delay the government’s launch of its extended producer responsibility (EPR) recycling scheme. The EPR scheme was originally proposed ...

Although the United Kingdom is exiting the European Union, its government has announced it intends to adopt a Circular Economy Package based on wider EU goals, including a target to recycle 65 percent ...

Defra has said the government needs to “get out of the way” and let the industry run the controversial extended producer responsibility (EPR) tax. It comes amid a row over how money raised from the ...

A delay to the roll out of extended producer responsibility has caused alarm for councils and led to warnings over delayed procurements and knock-on costs for taxpayers. Local authorities and ...

The UK’s new plastic packaging tax is far too “blunt” a tool and fails to take into account how different types of plastic impact on circularity, a new report has found. Figures from Greyparrot, which ...