By Dwayne Nixon

This week, a new levy on food and drink packaging comes into force. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), as it is known, is designed to make businesses pay for the recycling of their products.

This week, a new levy on food and drink packaging comes into force. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), as it is known, is designed to make businesses pay for the recycling of their products.

The funds gathered through EPR are intended to be given to local authorities for recycling projects.

On paper, the idea is noble. In practice, it is muddled, costly, and risks penalising the very materials that should be encouraged while hiking the cost of consumers go-to products.

Under the scheme, the heavier the packaging, the higher the........

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