Under the United Kingdom's obligated packaging producers guidance, businesses that handle a certain annual volume of packaging are required to recycle a defined percentage of the packaging commercialized. In 2024, the overall packaging recycling business target stood at 80 percent. Rates vary depending on the type of packaging, with steel packaging having the highest target, at 87 percent. Meanwhile, a 42 percent recycling target was set for wood packaging.
Packaging recycling targets for packaging producers in the United Kingdom in 2023 and 2024, by material
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