Posted: 11/06/2026

RECOUP Presents Alongside Valpak at The Plastic Free Gathering Event

On Saturday 6 June Steve presented alongside Adrian Hawkes, Policy Director at Valpak, at the The Plastic Free Gathering Event in Bristol.

The title of the session was ‘Shaping Policy: The Plastic Free Playbook’, which outlined policy changes and current situation and impact on plastic packaging collection and recycling systems.

The event was attended by nearly 100 delegates and was quite an interesting event both in terms of the speakers and the debate. There was a lot of interest in the session with Steve and Adrian posed a wide variety of questions.

Steve’s presentation on the collection and recycling systems can be viewed here.