Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997

If your company has:

  • A turnover of £2 million or more in the previous year.
  • Handle 50 tonnes or more of packaging in the previous year.

    • You are obliged to abide by this legislation.

    • These regulations are the Government's response to the 94/62/EC Directive on Packaging Waste.
    • The main emphasis of the regulations is to prompt recycling and recovery of packaging and to reduce the amount of packaging waste sent to landfill sites.
    • It's set to target those companies that supply packaging, which they own, to another stage in the packaging chain or to the final user of the packaging.
    • The "producer" then picks up a proportion of the obligation on the packaging handled depending on the activity that has been carried out.

    Registered charities are exempt from these regulations.

    GA members are offered a support service from packaging specialists WESpack (at a concessionary rate) or can join a registered compliance scheme with WESpack, at a discounted rate, who will take over the management of the company's legal obligations.

    Please call Scott Maxwell on 01642 442 088 or email: smaxwell@wasteexhange.com.

     

     

     


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