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INCPEN’s statement on the Government’s Resources and Waste Strategy
Click here for Defra's Press Release. Click here for Resources and Waste Strategy for England.
Email received by Paul Vanston from HM Treasury on 29th October 2018
"I’m getting in touch because you submitted a response to HM Treasury’s call for evidence on single-use plastics waste earlier this year. Following that call for evidence, the Chancellor today announced plans for a new tax on plastic packaging which contains less than 30% recycled plastic, subject to consultation. [...]
INCPEN and OPRL consolidate relationship
INCPEN is joining OPRL’s guarantors, recognising the two organisations’ shared membership base and mutual interests in promoting the recyclability of packaging and a public policy environment that supports this. OPRL Ltd, the rapidly growing not-for-profit running the UK’s most widely recognised packaging recycling label scheme offers complementary services to [...]
INCPEN response to the LGA press release on plastics
04 August 2018 The Local Government Association (LGA) has distributed a press release (embargoed to 00.01 on Saturday 04 August) relating to the recycling of plastics. Paul Vanston, CEO of INCPEN comments as follows. I’ve worked in councils for most of my adult life, and mainly in recycling and [...]
INCPEN statement on the National Infrastructure Assessment
10 July 2018 The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) today issued its National Infrastructure Assessment, which sets out a long-term strategy for the UK’s economic infrastructure from 2020 to 2050. Paul Vanston, CEO of INCPEN comments as follows on the packaging-related recommendations on page 48. I was very pleased NIC [...]
UK Secretary of State, Rt Hon Michael Gove responds positively to packaging reform recommendations from WRAP, INCPEN and the ACP
Following a round table discussion convened by the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, in December last year WRAP, INCPEN (Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment) and Defra’s Advisory Committee on Packaging (ACP) have, for the last two months, been engaged in a comprehensive programme of discussions with stakeholders [...]