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Check what classifies as plastic, recycled plastic and packaging components, and if the packaging you manufacture or import is subject to the tax.
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
This consultation seeks views on the potential adoption of a mass balance approach for chemically recycled plastic in the Plastic Packaging Tax.
Find out what records and accounts you must keep to support the information that you submit on your Plastic Packaging Tax return.
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.
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.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
Seeking views on options for plastic recycling targets between 2016 and 2020 and glass recycling targets for 2018 to 2020.
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.
Seeking views on the design of the tax on plastic packaging announced at Budget 2018.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Extended producer responsibility scheme deferred for a year until October 2025
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