26 May 2022 --- The UK Plastic Packaging Tax is now in force, but the crippling costs and low availability of recycled food-grade plastic are encouraging businesses to pay the tax rather than embrace more circular packaging solutions, warns Andrew Smith, head of sales at Camvac.PackagingInsights speaks to Smith at the ongoing Packaging Innovations 2022 trade show in Birmingham, UK, where the company is launching ExtraPET PCR, a high-barrier lidding film with over 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR), and Camplus Extra MDO PE, a high-barrier metalized MDO PE in single web-form and laminate structure.
