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Report•
7th Oct, 2025

5 principles to create value from circularity

Our latest report explores five principles that explain how to define the benefits of circularity, measure progress correctly and establish the concept as a business-wide...
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Report•
11th Dec, 2025

Building resilient agricultural supply chains

Our latest report sets out a practical pathway to help businesses turn regenerative ambition into action.
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Insight•
27th May, 2025

In depth: Identifying the levers for change in the UK waste sector

Discover how we helped Reconomy define strategic principles to accelerate the UK’s circular economy transition.

Plastics and Packaging posts

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By George Scott•
25th Jul, 2025

What the Deposit Return Scheme means for your business

Discover how to prepare for the challenge ahead – and why the time to act is now.
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By Sancroft Team•
27th May, 2025

In depth: Identifying the levers for change in the UK waste sector

Discover how we helped Reconomy define strategic principles to accelerate the UK’s circular economy transition.
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By Sancroft Team•
12th Sep, 2023

Three reasons to integrate circular business principles now

Headline plastics and packaging policies – including Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) and the UK’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) – have run into delays, throwing...
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By Felix Gummer•
25th Jan, 2023

What is stopping you cutting out waste? – Four steps to overcoming the barriers to change

My passion for sustainability was born and nurtured out of an abhorrence of waste.  Waste in every sense, but particularly the systems that perpetuate wasteful...
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By Sancroft Team•
29th Jul, 2022

Sunshine, sound and sustainability: The greening of music festivals

With the onset of summer 2022, music festivals are back and in full force after two years of pandemic-related hiatus. This is a big year...
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By Felix Gummer•
24th Mar, 2021

The clock is ticking with One Year to go on the Plastic Tax.

We are, only a year away from the Plastic Tax and it is all getting threateningly real.  And there is another year marker upon us,...
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By Sancroft Team•
25th Jun, 2020

Plastics, packaging and waste reform: what next?

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense businesses disruption in the UK and across the globe. Despite this disruption, plastics and packaging remains one of the...
Read more Sustainable Strategies | A person placing a tray full of dirty plastic cups into an industrial dishwasher.
By Felix Gummer•
29th May, 2020

The economy may be weak, but the need to address plastics is as strong as ever

The Covid-19 outbreak has caused the largest disruption to business in the UK since the Second World War.  All companies, even those doing well, have...
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By Sancroft Team•
25th Mar, 2020

The Plastic Packaging Tax: everything you need to know

After nearly a year of waiting for details to emerge, this month finally saw the government set out how the new Plastic Packaging Tax will...
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By Sancroft Team•
29th Jan, 2020

How to unpick the plastic packaging problem

Coca Cola’s recent announcement at Davos that it will continue to use single use plastic for the foreseeable future and the global media furore which...
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By Sancroft Team•
10th Dec, 2019

New packaging rules will require fundamental refocus of business models

A panel comprising Judith Batchelar, director of brand at Sainsbury’s, Adrian Hawkes, policy director of leading environmental compliance scheme Valpak, Andrew Green, CEO of packaging...
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By Sancroft Team•
2nd Sep, 2019

Zero Waste Week | Electronics, Vaping and Razor Blades

The world is becoming a more circular place, in that it’s no longer enough to produce something without considering where and how it’s produced, what...