EPR charges are ‘blunt tool’ that ignore circularity, finds report

Recycling

 Figures from Greyparrot show huge disparity between the sortability and sell-on value of different types of plastic material

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. 

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