Defra has today confirmed its intention that packaging waste recovery and recycling targets for Great Britain will increase from 2008 onwards.

Defra anticipate that in this year alone the new, higher targets will save over 8m tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere. The targets will increase again over the following two years to realise a further saving of 258,097 tonnes of CO2 in 2009 and then an additional 285,436 tonnes in 2010.

The new overall recovery targets of 72% in 2008, 73% in 2009 and 74% in 2010 are aimed at achieving the 2008 EU Directive target of recycling at least 60% of our packaging waste and meeting the ambitions outlined in the 2007 Waste Strategy for England.

Joan Ruddock, Minister for Waste, commented that “Reducing, recovering and recycling packaging is an important way in which business, Government and the consumer can work together to reduce greenhouse gases. These increased targets represent our commitment to drive up recycling in Great Britain and tackle dangerous climate change.”


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