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税，现在被称为“塑料税”。这项税收将于2022年开始，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，除非使用的回收成分超过30%。虽然这有可能为英国税务海关总署带来可观的收入，或者增加塑料回收的价值，从而使塑料回收的价值发生重大变化，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可回收量。因此，可以通过英国税务海关总署（HMRC）的采购记录进行审计的英国制造商面临着来自海外进口塑料包装的竞争，这些进口塑料包装的回收品采购记录无法核实，或者来自不道德的本地运营商的竞争，这些运营商错误地申报了材料的来源。该项目旨在通过提供一种国际公认的方法/标准来确定塑料产品中可回收物的百分比含量，通过将苏格兰卓越塑料回收中心（SPRCOE）和英国标准协会（BSI）聚集在一起，这两家机构都将从这项新服务/产品中获益，同时也保护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.