Landfill tax raised to £126.15 from 2025/26 - letsrecycle.com/news/landfill-…

Roydon Resource and Recovery hit with 870K+ fine for illegal waste exports letsrecycle.com/news/roydon-re…

DRS across whole UK confirmed for Oct 2027 …lectionandpackagingreform.cmail19.com/t/t-e-eijurz-j…

Defra publishes revised EPR Statutory Instrument that has been sent to the EU and WTO …lectionandpackagingreform.cmail19.com/t/t-l-eiilkhk-…

The justice system needs to have a serious think about how it deals with waste crime. £800 fine - pathetic. gov.uk/government/new…

Interesting Defra Business Readiness Forum today covering Simpler Recycling, DRS, Single use vapes ban and EPR data. Slides 360environmental.co.uk/wp-content/upl… Particularly useful was the current timeline for the introduction of various policies - long and complex.

Woeful 2007 regs producer packaging data numbers published. Compared to same time last year, 200 less producers registered, nearly 1m less tonnes recorded, plastic av. per registration down 11%. npwd.environment-agency.gov.uk/Public/PublicC…

Latest EPR producer list shows 6,140 producers have registered, coincidentally, virtually the same as have registered under the 2007 regs (6,143). Asda seems to be the only major supermarket missing from both lists.....

Defra publishes long-awaited illustrative base fees for consumer packaging in 2025. These will be adjusted once the final 2024 registered data is know in April 2025. Calculations below based on recently published Packflow tonnages …lectionandpackagingreform.cmail20.com/t/t-e-sljlriy-…

Strong concern from the glass packaging industry over EPR based fees costs. Eg drinks manufacturer putting 10k tns glass packaging onto UK market will pay c. £300k PRN costs in 2024. In 2025 they will pay £3.3m on higher base fee. If PRNs cost £100/t, they wud pay another £740k.

Materials Facilities Regulations still on course to come into force on 1 Oct. As if sampling requirements weren't complicated enough, new quarterly return template has been published...... 360environmental.co.uk/materials-faci…

The EPR Conference letsrecycle.com/event/the-epr-… via letsrecycle.com

So who pays for the site clearance? gov.uk/government/new…

Suspended jail sentences, paltry fines, 2 years to clear the site - I wonder who will end up picking up the cost. And the previous prison sentence had no effect, so hard to see the two of them not just carrying on. gov.uk/government/new…

Why do I get so many Temu adverts? I've never bought from them or even been on their website. Is Musk a shareholder?

Deposit Return Scheme regulations for England and NI laid legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/978…

So much wrong with our judicial system - paltry fines, appatently no POCA, suspended prison despite previous offences and it took 7 years to get to prosecution. Waste crime certainly does pay. gov.uk/government/new…

5 years of repeated EA visits before prosecution. Fined £760 for each offence. Something badly wrong. gov.uk/government/new…

Couldn't make it up. BBC reports: 'The US and UK F-35s - which were initially scheduled to also take part (in the flypast) - have been forced to stand down due to poor weather.' Just as well it's always sunny when we go to war.