ment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed that packaging recycling targets will be set for next year.
There were fears among industry officials that targets would be dropped altogether but the body has revealed that the abolition of targets "was never really an option".
Judicaelle Hammond, the head of producer responsibility at Defra, reassured concerned audience members at a letsrecycle.com event in London that packaging producers will still have to recycle a designated amount.
She said: "You can assume that there will be targets. Not having targets was never really an option. We have to find a way of transposing the Packaging Directive – there is no option of not having targets as such."
Ms Hammond added that Defra aims to make the sector more transparent in regards to recycling.
Current targets expire at the end of the year, with the next targets set to span over the next decade.
Typical Guttridge equipment used in the recycling industry includes; conveyors – screw conveyors – chain conveyors – belt conveyors
