In his quarterly vlog, Jacob discusses highlights from the recent RWM exhibition; upcoming recycling and waste policy milestones and outstanding issues; and the findings of the ESA’s recent report...
RECYCLING
Collaboration across the value chain is key to overcoming the “multi-faceted” challenges of increasing packaging recycling rates, according to expert panellists on RWM’s Packaging and EPR stage. ESA’s Head of...
By ESA Policy Team The summer holidays are becoming a distant memory, the kids are back at school and the weather is rapidly turning autumnal – which can only...
Defra has today published “illustrative” base fees setting out what obligated packaging producers will pay in the first year of the new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regime for packaging...
Defra has today announced that it will delay the start of the UK’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) until October 2027 in a decision that the ESA described as “sensible...
Patrick Brighty analyses the recently published findings of the PAC inquiry into the Government’s programme of resources and waste reforms, and how they echo what industry has been calling...
ESA’s Patrick Brighty looks at Defra’s recently published plan for Simpler Recycling, and what it means for the UK’s waste and recycling sector. Defra published details of the third...
Climate and Energy Policy Advisor for the ESA, Charlotte Rule The Environmental Services Association (ESA) has published a policy scorecard which examines the progress of key policies to support...
Patrick Brighty, ESA’s Recycling Policy Adviser looks in depth at the government’s response to its consultation on the deposit return scheme (DRS) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Friday’s...
