The PackFlow Covid-19 reports analyse how the pandemic and recession affected UK packaging flows, recycling, and compliance risks. Designed to support Defra, governments, and industry, they provide vital insights into packaging system resilience under unprecedented disruption.
Phase I updates the baseline year to 2019 for packaging placed on the market (POM), collections, recycling, and end markets. Phase II models the impacts of lockdown and recession, projecting flows and recycling scenarios to 2022. This report focuses on UK metal packaging, with robust POM estimates, UK and overseas recycling levels, and insights into metal recycling end markets.
Valpak’s Plastic PackFlow 2025 Methodology Review strengthens the methodologies used to estimate UK plastic packaging placed on the market, introducing updated 2024 baseline data, improved robustness assessments, and evidence to support packaging policy, regulatory development, and informed industry decision-making.
Read MoreValpak partnered with Zero Waste Scotland to deliver the Textiles Flow Into and Within Scotland research, offering a clearer picture of national textile flows and future policy considerations. Download the full reports and explore how strong data supports effective stewardship.
Read MoreCommissioned by WRAP and delivered by Valpak Consulting with expert support, this report reviews the quantity of wood packaging placed on the UK market (POM) and recycled in 2014. It also projects future POM figures and recycling rates through to 2020.
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