<p><span>Barratt Developments, Taylor Wimpey and Bellway are collaborating with the Supply Chain Sustainability School to research packaging waste within the industry.</span></p> <p><span>The three large housebuilders will work with the School’s Waste and Resource Efficiency Group, supported by Zero Waste Scotland, to examine packaging waste at manufacturing and supply sources instead of the “traditional way” of assessing waste streams in skips.</span></p><p></p> <p><span>The project aims to gain a detailed understanding of the “packaging flows” from a combined list of the housebuilders’ top 50 suppliers. This was pertinent, the School indicated, with the new Plastic Packaging Tax being introduced in April 2022 and research showing that most dry mixed recyclable waste across the built environment is packaging.</span></p> <p><span>This project, using a data collection platform “used extensively” in the retail sector, will gauge the extent of the packaging problem and help those working with suppliers to reduce waste and ultimately switch to a circular economy, the School explained.</span></p><p></p> <p><span>The participants will consider – among other factors – where to reduce waste at source, new methods of transporting materials to site safely and securely and reusing or recycling more packaging materials.</span></p><p></p> <p><span>Matt Nichols, divisional director of Reconomy and chair of the School’s Waste and Resource …