Verification of Recycled Content - protecting the UK supply chain

回收内容验证 - 保护英国供应链

• 批准号: 10004539
• 金额: $ 95.93万
• 依托单位: SPRCOE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10004539
• 关键词: Verification; Recycled; Content; protecting; UK

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.

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税，现在被称为“塑料税”。这项将于2022年开始征收的税收将对所有在市场上投放塑料包装的品牌征收每吨200英镑的税，除非使用回收含量超过30%。虽然这有可能为HMRC带来可观的收入，或增加塑料回收物的价值，从而使塑料回收的价值发生变化，这将增加全国塑料回收商的数量，目前还没有一种方法来分析塑料产品中回收物的含量。因此，英国制造商可以通过HMRC的购买记录进行审计，面对来自海外的进口塑胶包装的竞争，因为海外的回收物购买记录无法核实，或本港不法经营者虚报物料来源。本计划旨在提供一套国际认可的方法/标准，以厘定物料的通过将苏格兰塑料回收卓越中心（SPRCOE）和英国标准协会（BSI）联合起来，这两家机构都将从这项新服务/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，从而提高塑料产品中回收物的含量。