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Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
Check what classifies as plastic, recycled plastic and packaging components, and if the packaging you manufacture or import is subject to the tax.
Some of the most polluting single-use plastic items banned from 1 October
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
Find out which plastic packaging components are exempt or excluded from the tax, and if the packaging counts towards the 10-tonne threshold for registration.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
The UK along with 170 countries attended the fourth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) in Canada this week.
Budget 2018 announced that the government will introduce a world-leading new tax on produced or imported plastic packaging. Subject to consultation, this will apply to all plastic packaging that doesn’t include at least 30% recycled content.
A collection of guidance you should follow for Plastic Packaging Tax.
Check when packaging is classified as a finished plastic packaging component, and what is meant by substantial modifications, to find out if you must register for the tax.
The sources and scale of plastics in the environment, their impact, and how the issue is being tackled.
How to work out the weight of plastic packaging components and each material used to make them, to check if you must register for Plastic Packaging Tax and include them on your return.
Find out which plastic packaging components are in and out of scope of Plastic Packaging Tax.
The Ministry of Justice's policy for reducing and removing single-use plastic across our full estate.
Volunteers cleared rubbish on England's waterways for Plasticblitz. Cigarette butts most common plastic item found in 2 weeks of litter-picking.
If you have manufactured or imported 10 or more tonnes of plastic packaging in the last 12 months, you may need to register for the tax.
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