Since January 1, 2021, the European Union has introduced a [plastic packaging tax", which adds a plastic packaging tax at a tax rate of 0.8 euros per kilogram for disposable plastic packaging. The plastic tax is not a tax on the raw plastic or packaging industry, but a fee paid for plastic packaging waste that is not recycled.
From 1 April 2022, the UK will impose a plastic packaging tax (PPT) on single-use plastic packaging produced or imported at a rate of 0.2 pounds per kilogram.
The Italian plastic tax was introduced on January 1, 2023. The tax was first proposed in the 2020 budget and has since been delayed several times.
The Spanish Government has approved Decree HFP/1314/2022. The Spanish plastic tax comes into effect from January 1, 2023, with a starting point of 5 kg of non-recycled plastic packaging per month and a tax of 0.45 euros per kg.
The German government has issued draft legislation on the taxation of disposable plastic products, and enterprises that put disposable plastic products into the German market for sales (including remote sales) will need to pay taxes for the first time, which is expected to start collecting taxes in 2025.
In 2021, the U.S. Senate proposed a proposal to charge a certain excise tax on all non-recycled plastics produced by plastic manufacturers, including plastic packaging, beverage containers, bags and food service products. The proposal proposes a tax of 10 cents per pound of new plastic starting in 2022, rising to 15 cents in 2023 and 20 cents in 2024.
How can the plastic tax be offset?
The answer: with a recycled plastic content of 30% or more.
In the internationally recognized global recycling standard GRS certification, it is clear that only pre-consumer Recycled Polybag PIR and post-consumer Recycled polybag PCR materials are considered recycled content. Therefore, 30% recycled, 50% recycled, 100% recycled refers to the proportion of recycled materials in the product or packaging by quality.
post-consumer recycled polybags are materials produced by households or commercial, industrial and institutional facilities as end-product users that can no longer be used for their intended use. Includes materials recovered from the distribution chain. That is, the plastic bags that are recycled by consumers after consumption have a wide distribution of crystal points, are transparent, and the color is slightly darker.
PIR plastic bag is the pre-consumer recycled Polybag, that is, the Recycled Plastic Bag before consumption, the material transferred from the waste stream during the manufacturing process. Exclude the reuse of certain materials, such as rework, re-grinding or residual materials produced during processing and will be reused in the same processing process, that is, plastic bags that are recycled without consumer consumption.
In summary, PCR, PIR plastic bags are plastic bags certified by GRS, or recyclable plastic bags, referring to meet customer requirements, meet internationally recognized environmental standards, truly recyclable plastic bags, is an important product of environmental protection bags.
TC certificate (Transaction Certificate) is an important document to prove recyclable materials, and transaction certificate (Transaction Certificate) is also an important way for organizations to monitor the entire supply chain to comply with the global recycling standard GRS.
Generally speaking, the GRS certificate is a manifestation of the factory qualification, that is to say, the factory is qualified to produce GRS products, but at the same time, it can also produce ordinary products, so which products are ordinary? What is recyclable?
A TC certificate is a GRS recyclable material! That is to say, the GRS certificate is the qualification certificate of the factory, and the relative TC certificate is the proof of a certain batch of goods.
Therefore, the TC certificate will also have specific information such as product recycled material content and weight.
The GRS recycled plastic bags and shrink films produced by Sunpak Packaging have the advantages of various bag types, transparent, powderless, easy to open, recyclable, clear and firm printing, etc., and the GRS certification of Sunpak Packaging covers different recycled material proportions and materials. 30% RECYCLED, 50% RECYCLED, 70% RECYCLED, 100% RECYCLED and many other proportions for you to choose, while LDPE, HDPE, PPE, CPE, PP and many other materials, There are many bag types such as film, plastic bag, bone bag, zipper bag, organ bag, flat bag, vacuum bag, wire bag, hook bag, button bag, card bag, paper card bag, hook bag, shrink film, Stretch Film, etc., to meet the requirements of different customers for recycled plastic bags.
Sunpak Packaging has successfully issued thousands of TC transaction certificates, and efficiently cooperate with the customization of recyclable plastic bags.
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