PLANS to slap businesses with recycling charges will be delayed if they push up costs for consumers.
Rishi Sunak has ordered his team to look again at the plan amid growing alarm that Net Zero policies are making the cost of living crisis more painful.
PM Rishi Sunak at Downing Street
Under the scheme, businesses that wrap products in plastic will have to contribute towards the cost of recycling it.
This includes fees for the environmental regulator administrators and waste management.
But the PM is determined that the cost of people’s Mars Bars and other everyday goods should not go up as a result.
A source told Trending In The News on Sunday: “It could be delayed if the PM is not satisfied consumers won’t have to pay more.”
Cabinet ministers have privately urged the PM to delay Net Zero policies if they push up costs for cash-strapped Brits.
The recycling charge applies to businesses with an annual turnover of £1 million or more.
The PM is taking a tough stance amid the fallout from Thursday’s byelections.
In a bruising night, the Tories lost their once rock solid seats of Selby & Ainsty and Somerton & Frome.
But they defied the odds to hold on in Boris Johnson’s old seat of Uxbridge – helped by drivers furious at Labour’s Ulez car charge.
Senior Tories said the lesson was the Tories should ditch punitive Net Zero policies and double down on fighting the cost of living crisis.
