British Glass has accused the UK government of shattering the UK glass sector after a new packaging tax was passed by Parliament. We speak with Dave Dalton, CEO at British Glass, about what the association now expects from the government to mitigate glass prices and ensure fair material costs. “The government has failed to listen to concerns from producers and trade bodies and is ploughing on with this ill-thought-out scheme, which is a hammer blow to the glass sector and British manufacturing,” Dalton tells us.
