Verification of Recycled Content - protecting the UK supply chain

2019年，英国政府宣布计划对所有不含至少30%回收成分的塑料包装征收一项税，现在被称为“塑料税”。这项将于2022年开始征收的税，将对所有在市场上放置塑料包装的品牌征收每吨塑料200 GB的税，除非使用超过30%的回收含量。虽然这有可能为HMRC带来大量收入，或增加塑料回收的价值，从而使塑料回收价值发生阶段性变化，从而增加全国塑料回收商的数量，但目前还没有方法来分析塑料产品中的回收数量。因此，英国制造商可以通过HMRC的采购记录进行审计。面对从海外进口的塑料包装的竞争，这些塑料包装的购买记录无法核实，或者来自当地不良经营者的虚假材料来源。该项目旨在通过提供国际公认的确定塑料产品中可回收物百分比含量的方法/标准来填补这一盲点，将苏格兰塑料回收卓越中心(SPRCOE)和英国标准协会(BSI)结合在一起，这两个机构将从这项新服务/产品中获益，同时保护HMRC的收入，支持包装制造商，并启动英国的塑料回收行业。

In 2019 the UK government announced plans to introduce a tax on all plastic packaging which does not contain at least 30% recycled content, now known as the "plastic tax". This tax, which will start in 2022 will impose a £200 tax, per tonne of plastic, on all brands placing plastic packaging in the marketplace, unless recycled content of over 30% is used.While this has the potential to generate significant revenue for HMRC, or increase the value of plastic recyclate, hence making a step change in the value of plastic recycling which will increase the numbers of plastic recyclers throughout the country, there is no current method to analyse the amount of recyclate within a plastic product.As a result, UK manufacturers, who can be audited via purchase records from HMRC, face competition from imports of plastic packaging from overseas where purchase records of recyclate cannot be verified, or from unscrupulous local operators who falsely declare the origins of their material.This project seeks to close this blind spot by providing an internationally recognised method/standard for determining the % content of recyclate within a plastic product, by bringing together the Scottish Plastic Recycling Centre of Excellence (SPRCOE) and the British Standards Institution (BSI), both of whom stand to gain from this new service/product, while also protecting the revenues of HMRC, support packaging manufacturers and kick start the plastic recycling industry in the UK.