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Get help to classify plastics for import and export.
Rules for shipping waste plastic.
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
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
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.
We're seeking evidence to help us develop standards for biodegradable, compostable and bio-based plastics, and an understanding of their environmental impacts.
The Ministry of Justice's policy for reducing and removing single-use plastic across our full estate.
When recovered non-packaging plastics are no longer waste.
Defra wants your views on a plan to ban the supply of single-use plastic items and polystyrene food and drink containers.
This review found examples in a few case studies in India, UK, Netherlands, Ghana, Ethiopia and South Africa
The sources and scale of plastics in the environment, their impact, and how the issue is being tackled.
A call for evidence on using the tax system or charges to address single-use plastic waste
UK signs Ministerial Statement calling for an ambitious global plastic pollution treaty to tackle plastic pollution and protect the marine environment.
When you can treat waste plastic using heat without an environmental permit.
This section describes the statutory, business and third section mechanisms for micro and other plastics.
This consultation seeks views on the potential adoption of a mass balance approach for chemically recycled plastic in the Plastic Packaging Tax.
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