On 23rd November the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Welsh Assembly announced new targets that require progressively greater proportions of packaging waste to be recycled over the next five years. The new annual targets are described in a draft Statutory Instrument yet to receive Parliamentary approval. The targets run up to 2010, and will see businesses obliged to recycle and recover increasing amounts of paper (up to 68.5% by 2010), glass (74.5%), aluminium (35.5%), steel (59.5%), plastic (25.5%) and wood packaging waste (21.5%). The overall minimum amount of recovery to be achieved through recycling remains the same between 2006 and 2010, at 92%.

Defra has also confirmed a number of additional changes to the Regulations that will keep the burdens on individual businesses lower than they might otherwise be. The new changes introduced include a proposal to obligate franchisors, pub operating businesses and other businesses with similar business agreements (”licensors”) for the packaging supplied to sub-threshold franchisees, licensees or tenants as part of an agreement between the two parties.

Further information can be found at http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2005/051123b.htm

Source: www.defra.gov.uk (accessed 16/12/05)

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