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"Amount of money that's gone into wind and solar vs chemical recycling is shocking. Everyone wants you to succeed but no one wants to own you"- says Adrian Haworth @RecyclingTech #UKPlasticsReprocessing
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Exports and a lot of investment in energy recovery means it's difficult to transfer some plastics away from EfW. We need to encourage local authorities to divert from these, @plasticenergy's @CloeRagot_EU says
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What do we need to do to generate an environment to encourage investment into reprocessing infrastructures? Lots of varying opinions coming out of this afternoon’s panel #UKPlasticsReprocessing
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Welsh government considering a tax on single-use plastics. #UKPlasticsReprocessing
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Here to share the Welsh perspective is Sue Jay, who is presenting on strategies to accelerate the shift to a circular economy @WRAP_Cymru #UKPlasticsReprocessing
'Price of virgin polymer is decreasing,' says Mike Baxter. 'Yet the cost of recycling PET is estimated at £200-£300.' #UKPlasticsReprocessing
Mike Baxter: "People have got to be told- MRFs and PRFs have got to stop relying on exporting materials abroad. We next need capacity and guarantees" @rpcbpigroup #UKPlasticsReprocessing
"Plastics recycling industry has a history of being fine until the grant money runs out- then they go bust." says Mike Baxter #UKPlasticsReprocessing
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Mike Baxter from @rpcbpigroup warns we are getting closer to targets being met but we’re not near any large pieces of capacity actually being built #UKPlasticsReprocessing
A DRS is currently stopping @PlastipakEurope from investing in a new plant, says @SuttonKinza. “We don’t know where we’re going to get our feedstock from” #UKPlasticsReprocessing
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Future policy to shift bottles to be 100% sustainable by 2030. Clear direction creates pull effect. @RWWMagazine @RibenaUK
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I'm on a mission to make food-grade PP work says @VeoliaUK's @kirkman_richard. Could this be possible? #UKPlasticsReprocessing
26.3% of UK recovered plastic was sent to Turkey between Jan-Jun 2019, @WRAP_UK data reveals #UKPlasticsReprocessing
Treasury said it was committed to introduce a plastic tax in 2022, but less clear on the scheme design #UKPlasticsReprocessing
60% prefer an 'all in' DRS option, and only 13% favour on the go option, @WRAP_UK Peter Maddox tells this morning's #UKPlasticsReprocessing
New partnerships are the way forward for plastics reprocessing? #UKPlasticsReprocessing, see full details - bit.ly/36CcEg0 . Explores the opportunities for greater reprocessing infrastructure. Great speakers, important day.
looking forward to @RWWConfs_Events and @RWWMagazine UK Plastics Reprocessing event tomorrow - essential discussion with plastics industry, waste sector, and finance area on how to develop greater capacity - the critical link in the circular economy.
Look out for @RWWMagazine and @RWWConfs_Events important conference on plastics reprocessing infrastructure - Nov 13, London, bit.ly/36CcEg0.
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