All Extended producer responsibility (EPR) articles – Page 12
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ProfilesBelu co-CEO Natalie Campbell on buyers, Rachel Reeves and Jamaican Sunday roast
’If you only care about price, just say so. Don’t claim to be interested in social value,’ says Belu’s Natalie Campbell
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NewsWaitrose to track and trace single-use plastic packaging with Polytag
Waitrose will track plastic waste using an online portal which provides ‘live barcode-level lifecycle data’ on packaging
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Comment & OpinionAsda’s puny price war causes bizarre run on Tesco share price
Tesco’s magnificent results and diverse armoury of weapons overlooked by over-reacting investors
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Comment & OpinionEven a second cost of living crisis can’t help Asda now
Allan Leighton’s price strategy is a desperate dice-roll and I believe it has no chance of working, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & OpinionEPR stealth tax is a betrayal of industry
If the government cannot ensure these fees are reinvested into improving recycling then the policy needs a fundamental rethink, says Alice Rackley, CEO of Polytag
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Comment & OpinionIt’s official: EPR’s £1.6bn green tax on industry is no joke
Treasury’s watchdog has reclassified EPR as a tax on business as it ups the cost estimate by a cool £200m. Is it all a cruel April Fools’ joke?
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NewsEPR is a tax and won’t improve recycling before 2030, admits Treasury spending watchdog
The Treasury has also forecast the cost of EPR will rise by £200m from the government’s previous estimate by the end of the Parliament
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Comment & OpinionDefra’s Food Strategy will fail if it doesn’t support growth
Addressing obesity, sustainability and food security all crucial in food strategy but so is growth
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NewsMedia Bites 27 March: spring budget, Trump tariffs, retail wages
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is in the media hot seat this morning following her spring update
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Comment & OpinionSpring statement 2025: no crumbs of comfort for food businesses
Today’s statement was never going to be a game-changer – but as inflation begins to fall, can the food industry and retail find a silver lining?
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Comment & OpinionExtended producer responsibility: a looming, utterly avoidable crisis for SMEs
Next week, the government is rolling out the extended producer responsibility scheme, risking pushing hundreds of SMEs over the edge
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NewsCity snapshot: inflation falls to 2.8% ahead of spring budget
Alcohol and tobacco were some of the biggest risers, up 5.7% over the past 12 months, while food inflation remained steady at 3.3%
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NewsFood business confidence crashes amid fears over taxation and EPR costs
A bombardment of taxation and regulation has led to a drastic fall in food industry business confidence, according to a damning report released by the FDF
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Comment & OpinionSpirits and hospitality can’t afford a gut punch in spring statement
The sectors took a quadruple hit at the last statement – it’s someone else’s turn, says Nick Gillett, MD at Mangrove Global
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Rankings10 brands vying to become one of Britain’s 100 biggest
Some of the most dramatic rises in value come from brands sitting just outside the top 100 of Britain’s Biggest Brands
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Comment & OpinionRed tape and bureaucracy: do we need PackUK to run the EPR?
Questions are being raised over the future of PackUK, the new quango set up to run EPR. With a £150k year CEO and separate bureaucracy, could this be run by the industry instead?
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Comment & OpinionCould reuse and refill replace single-use packaging in the next 10 years?
Will reuse and refill replace single-use packaging in the UK? Dr Paul Davidson, director of UKRI’s Smart Plastic Packaging Challenge, believes the reuse revolution is closer than we might think
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Comment & OpinionLabour must double down and make reusable packaging mainstream
Labour promised a zero-waste economy - reuse and refill is a sure-fire way of cutting plastic pollution at source, says City to Sea CEO Jane Martin
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NewsPackaging: hotline set up to report EPR ‘freeriders’
The Environment Agency told The Grocer it had already taken action against more than 1,000 companies in the last five months to bring them into compliance
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Guide ToThe Grocer Guide to Packaging
Despite cost-of-living challenges, packaging suppliers maintain that consumers are still focused on sustainability and environmentally friendly packaging. So, they are continuing drive for improvements in materials and design. However, recycling infrastructure is an ongoing conundrum.