Recycle Wales becomes Wales first approved Packaging Waste Compliance Scheme
Recycle Wales, the Specialist Environmental Compliance Company, is pleased to announce that it has registered Wales first packaging waste compliance...
Plastic Packaging Tax
A £200 a tonne tax on plastic packaging containing less than 30% recycled content will come into force in April...
Circular Economy Action Plan
The European Commission has adopted a ‘Circular Economy Action Plan’, and promised to launch “concrete actions” on packaging, WEEE and...
New OPRL Rules Aim to Drive Change Ahead of EPR Reforms
Early 2020 saw OPRL launch new rules to govern their market-leading recycling labels, with aims to give consumers greater transparency...
EA Packaging Monitoring Plan Released
The Environment Agency (EA) have recently released their monitoring plan for packaging producer responsibility that outlines what is to be...
WRAP Reports Plastics Pact Progress
Plastics recycling has been one of the top subjects of 2019 with awareness of the topic ranging from government through...
Villiers returns as Environment Secretary
The General Election on 12 December, which saw Boris Johnson returned as Prime Minister with a large Conservative majority, saw...
Plastics Market Situation Report Published by WRAP
WRAP’s Plastic Market Situation Report published in October outlined the latest data and in-depth information about UK plastics recycling and...
The Environment Bill
Last week (15th October 2019) the highly-anticipated Environment Bill was published by Defra outlining new legal frameworks and powers to...
The Queen's Speech
On 14th October we heard the Queen’s speech and with many changes on the horizon the Queen reassured “My ministers...
Industry Awards for our Compliance Scheme Manager
35 under 35 is an exciting awards programme that aims to “uncover the leaders of tomorrow” by identifying the rising...
Charity Update
Team Wastepack ran London Royal Parks Half Marathon for Blood Cancer Charity NATSIRT On Sunday 13th October four members of...
EA’s Compliance Monitoring
At the beginning of October the Environment Agency (EA) published their ‘Compliance monitoring and enforcement activity 2018’ report. With positive...
WRAP Publish Their Biggest Recycling Tracker Survey
The Recycling Tracker is an annual survey which has been undertaken by WRAP since 2004 making it the longest running...
Ministerial Changes at Defra
A cabinet reshuffle by the newly appointed Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has seen Theresa Villiers take over as the Secretary...
Defra Publish Consultation Responses
Defra published their Resources and Waste Strategy in December 2018 which laid out a 25 Year Environmental Plan, aiming to...
Reducing Single-use Plastics with Stansted School
Wastepack has been working with their local secondary school, Forest Hall School (FHS), in Stansted. The pair set out to...
On-Pack Recycling Labelling Under Review
Recycling labelling rules for household packaging are under review to ensure they keep pace with developments in collections services and...
Scottish Research Highlights Packaging Cost to Consumers
Shoppers are being urged to be aware of the financial cost and environmental of the single-use packaging being purchased in...
