UK-based Environmental Services Association (ESA) has recommended the HM Treasury to work with Defra to increase recycling in the country.
ESA is a trade association that represents the resource and waste management industry in the UK.
ESA has urged the Treasury to help create the right policy environment to gather investment for the waste and recycling industry.
If not intervened to increase recycling rates, the UK will have a shortfall of up to six million tonnes of waste without a home by 2030.
The trade association has recommended to take effective measures to control irresponsibly designed packaging and enhance the use of recycled material by UK manufacturers, which will help to generate the green jobs.
Green public procurement, lower VAT for recycled content and eco-design rules are some of the measures, which will improve the quantity and quality of recycling.
In addition, the long-term certainty of landfill tax continued funding will help to manage waste crime and create stable investment climate.
ESA’s executive director Jacob Hayler said: “The Chancellor has an opportunity in Wednesday’s Budget to help boost the UK’s resource productivity.
“Too many of our resources are wasted and we need much stronger action to improve packaging design and encourage the use of recycled materials in products.”
“Our industry has made huge strides in raising recycling and putting our discarded resources back into productive use. But without intervention, we are worried that decades of progress in managing our resources will begin to reverse.”
