
Ears open for environmental taxes
With Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivering his Spending Review today, the waste and recycling sector will be listening out for any specific relevant measures. Spending generally,
Waste is an increasingly serious environmental and economic problem. Green fiscal policies can improve resource efficiency and drive the transition to a circular economy, e.g. by implementing plastics taxes to encourage plastics recycling.
With Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivering his Spending Review today, the waste and recycling sector will be listening out for any specific relevant measures. Spending generally,
General description of the measure This is a new tax that applies to plastic packaging produced in, or imported into, the UK, that does not
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