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At Budget 2018, government announced that from April 2022 it wouldintroduce a world-leading new tax on the production and import of plastic packaging with less than 30% recycled content, subject to consultation. Plastic packaging accounts for 44% of plastic used in the UK , but 67% of plastic waste, and over 2 million tonnes of plastic packaging is used each year.     https://www.gov.uk. 

Proposals to reform the packaging producer responsibility system. These regulations set waste recycling targets for businesses responsible for producing packaging (like food containers). In particular, we’re seeking views on: changing how costs are managed to be consistent with “polluter pays” principles how we can use incentives to encourage the use of recyclable packaging making recycling labels mandatory on packaging setting new packaging waste recycling targets for 2025 and 2030 improving monitoring and enforcement of the regulations

Excellent Blog by Tamara Green

It may sound obvious but recycling is something that we can and should all do. Here's a list of what can be put in your BLUE BIN. Do this and everyone benefits. But also think what could be re-used, re-paired, and re-purposed  Recycling in Suffolk » East Suffolk Council

At the Suffolk-Norfolk border, Lowestoft is a seaside resort and port town with an interesting story to tell. In the 20th century the port was one of the pillars of the UK’s fishing industry, while the town developed with the expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling in the North Sea in the 1970s.

Fake Broadband scams Phonecalls about your internet are pretty common scams. I had one yesterday, purporting to be from a Broadband provider (which as it happened, was the one I used, but they just cycle through the main companies, knowing the probability of getting it right is quite high), saying they were 'Shutting down my internet connection because of suspicious activity on my IP Address'. Added: 23 September, 2023

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