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UK’s New Packaging Waste Tax Shifts Recycling Costs to Producers

On April 1st, the new packaging waste tax came to effect in UK, as part of the Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (EPR), fundamentally changing how packaging waste is managed. The new rules require businesses to cover the full cost of collecting and recycling their packaging, based on the tonnes of plastic they introduce to…