Only 3 weeks left to enter the UK Best Recycled Plastic Product Award!
Thu 05 May 2016
RECOUP will once again be sponsoring the ‘UK Best Recycled Plastic Product Award’ at the Plastics Industry Awards, which will be held at the London Hilton Hotel on Friday 30th September 2016. Th...
Are you producing an innovative product with recycled plastic content?
Tue 19 April 2016
Entry for the UK Best Recycled Plastic Product Award 2016 is open now! If you have a plastic product that meets the simple criteria below, then you can enter now. The product must:- • Be manufac...
NEW Plastic Recycling Communications Resource Pack
Fri 15 April 2016
Pledge 4 Plastics and Recycle Now have worked in partnership to produce a new consumer communications resource pack. The new pack promotes an aligned and consistent set of messages and visuals for pla...
ACP Launches New Guide to the PRN System
Tue 05 April 2016
The Government appointed Advisory Committee on Packaging has developed the first publicly available comprehensive explanatory guide to the operation of the UK Packaging Waste Recovery Note (PRN) syste...
Wed 23 March 2016
A UK-wide deposit return scheme for drinks containers divides opinion, largely around its cost-effectiveness and the repercussions for local authorities, producers, retailers and consumers themselves,...
Budget 2016: Reduced Plastic Recycling Targets Confirmed
Thu 17 March 2016
The Treasury has today confirmed that the packaging recycling target for plastics is to be reduced from its current level to 49% for 2016, increasing 2% per year to 2020. Below is a link to the le...
UK Best Recycled Plastic Product Award 2016
Mon 14 March 2016
The aim of the Plastics Industry Awards is to raise awareness and showcase the potential for recycled plastics in products and items. This will demonstrate and recognise progression in the application...
Thu 04 February 2016
Packaging Innovations 2016 will be at the NEC next week, Wednesday 24th – Thursday 25th February. Stuart will be chairing a panel session on Day 1 in the ECOPACK theatre - “Change the system, ...
Upcoming EPRO seminars/ meetings in 2016
Wed 13 January 2016
Date Seminar/ meeting Place Key Speakers and -EPRO role 16.01 Swiss Recycling Conference Solothurn Géraud Delorme, Patrick Geisselhardt 22.01 Packaging Chain Forum, EUROPEN (not open) on circula...
Mon 21 December 2015
The highly succesful RECOUP Conference will be back again in Peterborough at the KingsGate Conference Centre on the 29th September 2016. If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities contact ...
Let the Annual Plastic PRN Poker Game Commence, says RECOUP
Fri 23 October 2015
Stuart Foster from RECOUP has stated that ‘the unnecessary annual game of plastic PRN poker between the sellers and buyers will commence now Q3 2015 data has been published.’ His comments come a...
Wed 14 October 2015
DEFRA Publish Summary of Responses to Consultation on Plastic Flow Figures and Possible Target Changes On 13th October, DEFRA released a document summarising the responses to the consultation on plas...
RECOUP Members Working Together
Wed 14 October 2015
It is great to see RECOUP members, Tesco PLC and Eurokey Recycling Ltd working together recently on a project to turn plastic waste into a useful product for customers. The collaboration has resulted ...
Tue 13 October 2015
The RECOUP Conference has received lots of press coverage after another successful year, which you may have already seen. However, there is also coverage of the event from a different angle from speak...
Tue 13 October 2015
The Marine Litter Action Network (MLAN) have released their end of year report on what they have been doing and what they plan to do next. Click here to see the full report.
