The UK's figures on recycling waste is skewed because companies are exporting their problem rather than increasing reprocessing rates, the UK's second largest packaging waste compliance company claims. Wastepack also warned that businesses are not using funds credited to them under the UK's recycling programme to properly invest in new infrastructure to increase domestic recycling rates. The UK's Packaging Waste Regs, require companies to account for recycling & recovery of material as part of an EU wide effort to achieve packaging recovery rates of 60% by 31/12/08. Last year 49.6% of packaging waste was recycled in the UK, according to Defra. However, Wastepack says the figure proves there has been "very little growth" in domestic packaging waste reprocessing and that increases in recycling rates have been maintained largely through exports.
