The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has slammed the coalition government's preferred option for plastics packaging recycling targets in the United Kingdom, labeling the proposals "a further burden on an already struggling sector." In a consultation paper entitled Consultation on recovery and recycling targets for packaging waste for 2013-2017 the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it wants to see a business target of "57 percent of all plastics recycled by 2017, whereas BPF has called for a more gradual rise over the next half-decade to around the mid-30 percent mark.
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