This week’s numbers you need to know cover landfill regulations, the latest polling on attitudes to climate change, and a significant investment in solar energy. Hospitality has also joined calls from the farming industry for the UK government to rethink its inheritance tax reforms.
2028. The Scottish Government’s long planned and much-delayed ban on burying biodegradable municipal waste has been postponed. The BMW ban was set to come into force in 2021, but was delayed until December 31st this year. However, under a temporary regulatory arrangement the Scottish Environment Protection Agency will allow the waste to be landfilled rather than trucked south into England.
41%. Perceptions of the expected impacts of net-zero on the UK economy are mixed, with people being more negative (41%) than positive (22%) in the short term (1-2 years), according to the UK Government’s latest public attitudes survey. The proportion expecting a negative impact has increased since summer 2024 in both the short-term (41%, up from 37%) and long-term (22%, up from 20%). In the long-term (10+ years), expectations were at least more positive (49%) than negative (22%).
47%. UKHospitality has called on the UK Government to reconsider proposed reforms to Inheritance Tax. Recent survey data reveal that 47% of family-owned hospitality businesses expect to be directly affected, with 51% cutting back investment and a fifth anticipating being forced to sell up.
£2m. British food manufacturing giant Premier Foods has completed a £2.1m solar energy project at its Mr Kipling bakery in Carlton, South Yorkshire. The new 2.2MW solar farm, which will become operational next month (November), will cover up to 70% of the site’s electricity needs, reported edie.net.
