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Article: Working to find a common language. (packaging data returns from United Kingdom retailers) (Focus on Packaging)
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- Grocer
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- March 14, 1998
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If your company has a turnover of more than 5m [pounds sterling] and you're sitting somewhere along the commercial food chain, then April is a month to flag up in the diary. That's when some 500 food businesses in the UK will have to provide the regulator with their second packaging data return.
For those who missed the first wave of excitement last year, this is how things currently stand with meeting the Packaging Waste Regulations.
The August deadline required obligated businesses, those with a turnover of more than 5m [pounds sterling] and handling more than 50 tonnes of packaging, to do one of two things: either provide the regulator, in this ...