NEWS AND INSIGHT FROM THE FPA The week was dominated by the announcement of the four Consultations by Defra and HMT, more Brexit meetings and judging for the FPA Awards. RESOURCES & WASTE STRATEGY CONSULTATIONS The huge amount of work relating to the consultations for the Resource & Waste Strategy is becoming Read More
WRAP/CPI PAPER RECYCLING GUIDELINES The Confederation of Paper Industries in conjunction with WRAP has launched a new design guidance document “Our Paper” to encourage better recycling of paper and board. We advise members to read the document and, while we may not agree with all its content, it is important we are Read More
NEWS AND INSIGHT FROM THE FPA CUP CHARGE FOR SCOTLAND AFTER BUDGET DEAL? In order for the minority Scottish Government to enable their budget bill to be passed, concessions have been made to the Scottish Green Party. These include a number of environmental measures. In Read More
ENVIRONMENT SEMINAR: GREAT FEEDBACK Feedback from last week’s Seminar has shown that once again the event was very well received by members. Our thanks to those attendees who completed the feedback survey. Responses were overwhelmingly positive with engaging speakers, a great venue and plenty of time Read More
FPA SEMINAR 2019 ‘OUR VERY OWN DAVOS’ More than 160 FPA members attended last week’s Environment Seminar which was heralded by attendees as the best yet. INCPEN’s Paul Vanston tweeted that the line-up was like our very own Davos – a huge credit to the FPA. Stationers’ Hall proved an Read More
DEFRA CONSULTATION ON CARRIER BAG CHARGES Defra has just launched its consultation on the proposal to extend the carrier bag charge to all retailers and increase the minimum charge to 10p. Although the FPA proposed the current exemption for businesses below 250 on their payroll, Read More
RESOURCE & WASTE STRATEGY & EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is increasingly a reality following the publication of Defra’s Resources and Waste Strategy just before Christmas. This sets out a huge overhaul of Producer Responsibility with all businesses paying for the costs of Read More
GLASGOW CUP MOVEMENT Last Wednesday the FPA attended the business briefing for funders and partners of the Glasgow Cup Movement, led by Keep Scotland Beautiful working with Simply Cups and Scot Waste. The campaign is funded by FPA members Kidd, Benders, Huhtamaki, Graphic Packaging International, Read More
SANDWICH PACK ‘TAX’ RUMOUR A Sunday Times article, here, has raised the prospect of an imminent 15p ‘tax’ on sandwich packs. We believe this was based on a leak from the soon to be published Defra Resource and Waste Strategy. This strategy will have a huge Read More
FPA AWARD SPONSORS We’re delighted to announce the sponsors of our 2019 Awards, taking place on 7 March at the Grand Hotel Brighton. We are hugely grateful to the businesses who support us in this way and would like to thank them sincerely for their sponsorship. The 2019 Read More