Over three quarters of British businesses still unaware of Plastic Packaging Tax With a few days to go until its
The survey found that only a fifth
“The UK’s Plastic Packaging Tax is the
implementation, Veolia reports that
(22%) of the manufacturing and retail
right way to start getting businesses to
77% of British retail and manufacturing
businesses asked had already opted
push sustainability up the agenda, but
businesses are still unaware of the
for recycled content in their packaging.
it needs to go further. A tax escalator
impending Plastic Packaging Tax.
To reach the UK’s Net Zero goals, far
would make choosing to incorporate
more businesses must reduce their
recycled content in packaging both
reliance on virgin materials. The majority
economically and environmentally
of British retail and manufacturing
preferable to using virgin materials.
Research conducted by YouGov, on behalf of Veolia, explored the views of Britishbased senior decision makers across retail and manufacturing businesses on the incoming Plastic Packaging Tax.
businesses also support an escalator in percentage of recycled content threshold (63%) and cost charge (50%) as
“Not only could the UK save up to 2.89 million tonnes of carbon emissions
an incentive to use recycled content.
every year if all plastic packaging
packaging if they do not include 30%
Veolia Northern Europe Zone Senior
also incentivise investment in domestic
recycled content and will come into force
Executive Vice President, Gavin
infrastructure which could make the UK
from 1 April 2022.
Graveson, said;
a world leader in plastics recycling.”
The tax places a £200 per tonne levy on producers or importers of plastic
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included 30% recycled content, it would
