30 May 2022 --- The UK government must establish a nationally-unified recycling system and invest in chemical recycling to give businesses a realistic chance of complying with the new UK Plastic Packaging Tax, according to Schur Star Systems sales manager Ian Weston.Speaking to PackagingInsights at Packaging Innovations 2022 in Birmingham, UK, last week, Weston also called for a more balanced debate around the role of plastic food packaging in modern society and criticized the BBC for pedaling shallow anti-plastic sentiment.