There seems to be more in the media recently about China's increasing demand for higher quality recyclate and how the UK will have to respond by improving the quality of material it collects/processes.
For me this is a classic example of the market determining its own specification. This obviates any need for government intervention in the form of 'quality standards'. As I have argued before here, the implementation of arbitrary standards in any part of the UK would be liable to drive up costs to waste producers and leave the country as a whole worse off.
There is no need for heavy handed intervention at home as the market will drive up standards by itself. This still won't address the real problem for UK-based reprocessors, namely that their cost base is higher than that of their overseas competitors.
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