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Stark challenges ahead as household plastics packaging goes uncaptured

Plastics recycling charity Recoup estimates that 750,000 tonnes of post-consumer plastics packaging is not currently collected for recycling, in its latest UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey report. This allows a huge opportunity for upcoming legislative changes to help bridge the gap between the UK’s current capture rate and what plastics packaging is placed on…

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