Cardboard packaging, aluminium cans and plastic bottles all fly by and will be recycled. Additionally, 31 per cent could be reprocessed through new technologies like chemical recycling. Plastic (along with wood) remains the laggard with 632,000 tonnes of the 1.4 million tonnes recycled (44 per cent). New targets under the government's extended producer responsibility scheme are for 68 per cent of all packaging to be recycled by 2024 and 76 per cent by 2030. These wrappers, bags and pouches make up a fifth of all plastic packaging, but only 6 per cent is recycled and almost none of it is recycled back into food packaging. Almost none of the 3.2 billion pieces of fibre-composite food packaging placed on the market were recycled because there was "no recycling or infrastructure in place" for these materials. Extended producer responsibility is, for many, the flagship packaging policy on which everything else hangs. The more recyclable the packaging, the lower the price producers will pay. In turn, packaging that is difficult or costly to recycle should attract a very high cost. Nonetheless, some packaging manufacturers are irked. For example, compostable packaging will be branded 'do not recycle'. The national packaging waste database shows 51 per cent of plastic packaging was recycled in 2020 - 41 per cent of it in the UK. In 2018, that figure was 35 per cent. To hit 30 per cent recycled content for all plastic packaging placed on the market would require doubling the reprocessing capacity to 460,000 tonnes, according to Steve Morgan at charity Recoup.