NEWS AND INSIGHTS FROM THE FPA TREASURY MEETING Further to last week’s Budget, the FPA has been invited to a further meeting with the Treasury to advise on the proposed the 30% recycled plastic tax consultation. This is a significant recognition of the FPA’s work Read More
NEWS AND INSIGHTS FROM THE FPA BUDGET REACTION As expected, the European Parliament voted on Wednesday to approve the report of the EU Parliament’s environment committee which means a complete ban on a range of single-use plastics, as reported by the BBC here and more widely across Read More
Walk between Charing Cross and Embankment and you will find yourself on Villiers Street, the second busiest pedestrian thoroughfare in London. With most of the leading foodservice retailers either in this street or within a few seconds of it, together with a number of independents Read More
On a recent journey home from the station I took a spur of the moment decision to buy the weekly shop. Having not planned this supermarket visit I had no carrier bags in the car besides which we use ours to pick up litter including Read More
Attendees of the recent excellent annual Recoup conference will have heard a plea from a speaker calling for packaging manufacturers to be forced to include a minimum percentage of recycled content in their packaging. As we have seen from other issues raised in similar forums, it Read More
Recently a spate of press articles has appeared with stories of local authorities taking tougher action on those who throw litter out of vehicles. Coupled with a recent increase in the enforcement of fines this is all very encouraging and welcomed. Litter thrown out of Read More
A report prepared by Richard Inns of the PEC Partnership* based on the numbers of reported incidents of non compliance of imported food contact materials shows a serious low level of investigation by customs and compliance officers. The data supplied by the EU’s Food and Feeds Read More
The last 2 weeks have been dominated by the consultation taking place in Scotland on the introduction of a deposit return system (DRS) for beverage containers. With Scotland actively lobbying the UK Government to introduce the scheme UK wide this is very much an issue that has a huge Read More