Exclusive: ministers seeking to make firms pay more towards recycling their own waste
- Sandra Laville
- The Guardian
Supermarkets, retailers and major drinks brands are set to pay tens of millions of pounds more towards recycling their used packaging under the government’s new waste strategy expected to be published this month, the Guardian understands.
Supermarkets and other major producers of packaging waste currently pay a small fraction of the cost of collecting and recycling the 11m tonnes of packaging waste produced in the UK.
Ministers are considering several options to improve recycling, stop abuses to the…