Packaging Producer Responsibility Monitoring plan 2020 outlines new approach

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The Environment Agency (EA) has released its Packaging Producer Responsibility Monitoring plan for 2020. The EA is responsible for monitoring businesses that are affected by the Packaging Producer Responsibility Regulations. This includes ensuring that businesses contribute to EU Packaging Directive recovery and recycling targets and provide accurate data on the packaging that’s handled, recovered and recycled in the UK, among other things. In March 2019, the EA was restructured to allow for a single, nationally-managed delivery approach. According to the 2020 plan, new EA officers, beginning in February 2020, will be trained on how to monitor operators. Also in 2020, the EA intends to carry out ten site inspections of approved compliance schemes.