UK Packaging Pact: Over 50 businesses sign up to pact ahead of launch

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Set to launch April 2026, new initiative aims to ramp up efforts to improve packaging and reduce waste by replacing the current Plastics Pact

Fifty-three companies, including Asda, Biffa, Lidl, and Yeo Valley, are among the first cohort of businesses to sign-up to the UK Packaging Pact ahead of its launch in April next year. Waste charity...

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