PaperFlow 2025

Paper and Card Flow 2025 has been developed to support Defra in understanding current and future levels of UK paper and card packaging placed on the market (POM) and recycled. The report provides projections through to 2025, offering valuable evidence for packaging policy decisions.

In addition to market and recycling estimates, the study highlights UK and European compliance implications of projected trends. To ensure accuracy, Paper and Card Flow 2025 incorporates error margins and robustness assessments. Its findings deliver reliable insights to guide recycling performance improvements and long-term packaging strategy.

Latest Packflow Reports

Plastic Bags Plastic
2026
Plastic PackFlow 2025 – Methodology Review

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.

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Wooden Pallets Wood
WoodFlow 2020

Commissioned 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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