Government Cuts Recycling Fees and Expands Consultation for Hospitality
The government has announced measures to ensure restaurants, pubs and hospitality businesses get a fairer deal in disposing of packaging and waste. Changes will remove double charging for recycling the same packaging, saving a pub that sells 10,000 beer bottles and 3,700 wine bottles up to £870 a year. Glass drinks containers sold directly from producers to venues will no longer incur extended producer responsibility fees from April. A call for evidence will be launched to explore ways more businesses can re-use packaging at scale, and PackUK will also launch a call-for-evidence on fees manufacturers pay for packaging waste to ensure easy-to-recycle packaging costs less. Environment secretary Dame Angela Eagle said the reforms target the most recyclable packaging and tackle double charging on glass bought by pubs. Andy Slee, chief executive of SIBA, described double counting as costing pubs around £50 million a year and welcomed the government’s move. Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, welcomed the direction and said it will be vital to consider long-term impact and include around 12,000 publicans who run leased and tenanted pubs. Source: Beer Today
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