Executive Director Foodservice Packaging Association, Martin Kersh says: “Further to the publication this week of the Defra EPR Consultation, the FPA welcomes the proposal for mandatory paper cup take back by coffee retailers, for which we lobbied persistently. This builds on the success of the current paper cup recovery scheme facilitated by the PCRRG (Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group) which enables consumers to return used paper cups from any retailer to participating coffee shops. “However our request for membership fees and participation costs for cup collection schemes has not been ..read more

The next few years are a once in a lifetime opportunity to supercharge packaging recycling, though at a huge cost to business. Legislation seeking to increase recycling and the recycled content of packaging will, estimates reveal, cost businesses more than five billion pounds. Every penny raised must be deployed to build the recycling infrastructure the country needs. Read more here : https://bit.ly/3rTmWTo ..read more

The Paper Cup Recovery and Recycling Group (PCRRG) recently held its first members’ meeting of 2021. With representatives from the whole supply chain from converting to recycling, the PCRRG has made enormous progress in driving the collection and recycling of paper cups. Such progress has brought it to the attention of a wider packaging sector, particularly the facility for the public to return used cups to a large number (4 000+) of coffee shops irrespective of where the coffee was purchased. This is a model other forms of packaging can copy. With EPR still planned for 2023, the FPA believes ..read more

The Westminster Hall debate took place this week in response to the petition calling for a dedicated hospitality Minister. Support for both a Minister and extended support for hospitality was strongly expressed with our Chairman, Mark Pawsey, arguing the need for support for the supply chain. He said: “I spent 30 years as a supplier to the catering trade. We are missing our pubs, cafés and restaurants right now. When they are not operating, it has a significant effect on the suppliers to the sector. Although I welcome the support that the Chancellor has spoken about .. .many of the suppliers a ..read more

Together with a number of trade associations led by the British Frozen Food Federation, the FPA has agreed a joint letter to the Chancellor pleading for support for the foodservice supply chain. The letter calls for the following to be put in place with immediate effect: Extend the 12 month local authority Business Rates Exemption to businesses supplying into the hospitality and foodservice market, using the existing legislative exemption for hardship. Ongoing capital and tax break allowances to maintain the workforce. These could be pro rata’d depending on how many staff a company is able to ..read more

RIP ALAN McCAULAY It is with immense sadness that we advise Alan McAulay of Huhtamaki BCP passed away on Sunday 22nd November from an unexpected seizure. Alan was a senior manager running Huhtamaki’s Foodservice FMCG category, having been a part of the BCP management team at the time of the acquisition by Huhtamaki in 2013. Keco’s John Young, who has known Alan for more than 30 years writes: “We worked together in the Autobar Group when Alan was with HCS (Hotel & Catering Supplies) which was an acquisition made by the Group towards the end of the 1980s. There were significantly differ ..read more

RIP ALAN McCAULAY It is with immense sadness that we advise Alan McAulay of Huhtamaki BCP passed away on Sunday 22nd November from an unexpected seizure. Alan was a senior manager running Huhtamaki’s Foodservice FMCG category, having been a part of the BCP management team at the time of the acquisition by Huhtamaki in 2013. Keco’s John Young, who has known Alan for more than 30 years writes: “We worked together in the Autobar Group when Alan was with HCS (Hotel & Catering Supplies) which was an acquisition made by the Group towards the end of the 1980s. There were significantly differ ..read more

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Following the announcement yesterday (24 June) that the hospitality sector can reopen from 4 July, the FPA has reissued its ‘Guidance on the Safe Handling of Foodservice Packaging’. The government guidelines the hospitality sector needs to follow on Covid-19 prevention measures as operators reopen, provide detailed advice on procedures for sanitising surfaces, social distancing and PPE.   However, in order to ensure that high level of security is not undermined, the FPA is reissuing its guidelines to the safe handling of packaging, first published at the beginning of the pandemic whe ..read more