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We have consistently achieved ‘AA’ grade BRC certification in the Global Standard for Storage and Distribution for many years, something which we know is of paramount importance to our customers. Our film manufacturing sites are also BRC certified. Certificates are available upon request.

A call-off order is a fantastic service we offer at YPS to ensure that we always have your packaging material ready for just when you need it! It offers our customers flexibility and freedom by reserving their shrink film, stretch film or polybags in our large 20,000 sq ft warehouse, with the convenience of paying for it as they take it ‘on tap’. All that is needed is a purchase order for an agreed amount of film, from which amounts can be taken as and when required, until the purchase order has been completely fulfilled. This call-off facility may also help some customers delay price increases due to changes in the market, when arranged with their YPS account manager.

The UK Plastic Packaging Tax introduced in April 2022 imposes a £200 per tonne levy on manufactured or imported plastic packaging materials that contain less than 30% certified recycled content.

Yorkshire Packaging have been working closely with our manufacturing sites for a number of years to develop and bring to market a range of flexible films that contain over 30% and as much as 98% recycled content which are exempt from the tax. Look for the green logo stating ‘Also available with recycled content’ on our packaging material webpages to identify the conforming products.

OPRL is an initiative, in conjunction with WRAP UK, to demonstrate recycling possibilities for packaging more widely and clearly. The On-Pack Recycling Label delivers a simple, UK-wide, consistent recycling message for use on both retailer private label and brand-owner packaging. Unlike other recycling labels, the scheme is based on current local authority recycling services and reflects what can be recycled, and where. This enables more consumers to recycle more material correctly, more often.

‘PCW’ is an abbreviation of the term ‘post-consumer waste’, whilst ‘PIW’ stands for ‘post-industrial waste’. Although flexible films containing either one of these are greener for our planet, there is a distinct difference between the two. PCW films are composed of material that has been through the stages of manufacture, consumption and recycling before being cleaned and re-granulated to be repurposed into new films. This means that PCW/recycled-content films are a ‘closed loop’ solution.

PIW films by contrast are composed of virgin polymers, albeit virgin materials which would otherwise be classified as a waste by-product of the plastic film manufacturing process or from a production line environment. These PIW resins, which could include trimmed plastic from a master reel in manufacture, for example, are still beneficial for the environment because they prevent unnecessary waste and repurpose material that is still fit for use. In essence, PIW films are a recycled raw material.  

‘Fan-folded bags’ are laid-flat concertinaed polybags supplied in boxes. The box of bags is positioned at the back of the autobagger and the chain of bags is threaded through into the machine via a clam-shell design. The term ‘bags on reels’ denotes a chain of bags wrapped around a central spool that is mounted on the machine and fed directly into the printer. We would recommend the use of fan-folded bags when the required bag size is especially large as reel capacities are limited and therefore the use of bags on reels would incur more downtime in production between changeovers.