You might think that with budget cuts, a war in Afghanistan and a coalition to contend with, David Cameron's new government had enough on its plate. You'd be wrong. And among the myriad policies and plans the Con-Lib government has inherited from Labour is a consultation on how to improve recycling and recovery rates for waste packaging in the coming years.rnDefra's consultation document, which launched in March, is effectively an outline of how to put into practice the ambitious aims of last summer's Packaging Strategy, launched in June by then environment minister Hilary Benn.rnThe 63-page consultation from Defra put to the industry a series of proposals as to how to reform the producer responsibility regulations that first came into force in 1998 - in essence, the PRN system.
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