Packaging waste

Packaging waste regulations

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007, SI 2007/871, (PRO(PW)R 2017) as updated by the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020, apply in Great Britain. They are intended to manage packaging waste and prevent or reduce the impact of packaging and packaging waste on the environment by encouraging minimisation and reuse and by setting recovery and recycling targets. These obligations are part of the producer responsibility obligations on producers to ensure that waste derived from their products is kept to a minimum.

The Environment Act 2021 introduced powers for the government to reform existing producer responsibility schemes and to introduce new schemes in the future. The powers provide for modulated fees that can be used to incentivise producers to design their products with re-use and recycling in mind and data collection and data reporting regulations for packaging waste were introduced in 2023 and 2024 to inform the charging schemes for the extended producer responsibility regulations.

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/1332 were made on 11 December 2024, in force on 1 January 2025. These regulations

To view the latest version of this document and thousands of others like it, sign-in with LexisNexis or register for a free trial.

Powered by Lexis+®
Latest Environment News
View Environment by content type :

Popular documents