UK flexible plastic recycling faces capacity crisis despite successful FlexCollect trial

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With less than two years until mandatory collection requirements come into force, the question of how to build the capacity for all the plastic bags, confectionery wrappers, foil, plastic film and other materials currently with no end market is a looming crisis which needs to be solved – and fast

Questions over whether the government and the industry can successfully up their game in the war on plastic surfaced again in Westminster today in what is fast becoming a recurring theme.

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