Plastic Packaging Tax

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Blog, Plastic Packaging Tax
Understanding the UK Plastic Packaging Tax: Key changes and future implications

Valpak Head of Policy, George Atkinson's blog explores recent adjustments to the UK Plastic Packaging Tax, including a higher tax rate tied to inflation and allowance for mass balance accounting for chemically recycled plastics. He also discusses the impact of excluding pre-consumer waste as recycled content, which may increase tax burdens on manufacturers...

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Blog, EPR, Packaging, Plastic Packaging Tax
UK – a brave new world in a European context

Abbie Burford, Commercial Account Manager, looks at how various European countries meet EU packaging waste requirements and uses her knowledge to predict the shifts businesses may see (in terms of UK environmental compliance reporting and obligations), as a result of forthcoming Extended Producer Responsibility legislation and the Plastic Packaging Tax.

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Cyprus
Blog, Compliance, Green Dot, International, Plastic Packaging Tax
Key amendments to Cypriot waste legislation

So far 2021 has seen many EU Member States making changes to waste regulations. Valpak’s International Account Manager, Ellena Boote, looks at the key amendments in the Cypriot legislation.

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Plastic Bottles
Blog, Compliance, International, Plastic Packaging Tax
How Spain is implementing the Plastic Tax

On 1 January 2021, the European Union introduced a levy on non-recyclable plastic packaging waste, which requires individual countries to help combat the issue of packaging waste. Valpak International Account Manager, Lauren Shrimpton, looks at how Spain has implemented the Plastic Tax.

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Plastic Calculator
Blog, International, Plastic Packaging Tax
Italy’s Plastic Tax

After delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Italian plastic tax is now expected to be implemented in January 2022. Emma Trevor, Valpak’s International Account Manager, explores the requirements of this tax.

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Single use plastics
Blog, International, Plastic Packaging Tax, Sustainability
Single-Use Plastic Ban in the European Union

As a year has passed since the approval of the European Union’s Single-use Plastic Directive, Valpak’s International Account Manager, Abbie Burford, takes a closer look into the requirements of the legislation and how some Member States have already transposed the requirements or how they plan to transpose the regulations in the coming months.

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