Obligated businesses must submit 2024 packaging data by 1 April 2025 under the new extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR) scheme.
Under legislation which came into force on 1 January 2024, large organisations must submit their July-December 2024 data by 1 April.
Small organisations must submit their January-December 2024 data in one annual submission by 1 April.
Both large and small organisations must also register with their environmental regulator by the same date.
If obligated packaging producers have not reported their data or registered, they could face enforcement action.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the data producers provide will be “crucial” in helping to ensure fees are set at an appropriate level.
Defra released the third round of base fees for extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR) in January.
Together, we will deliver a fair and collaborative scheme that addresses the challenges of packaging waste…
The first round of pEPR base fees was published in August 2024 and was met with scathing criticism from the glass industry.
Defra published the refined figures once more data had been reported and checked by regulators because of “significant limitations” in the data used to create the original fees.
The updated illustrative base fees are for year 1 of pEPR and relates to fees that would be charged to obligated packaging producers by the Scheme Administrator. The fees are rounded to the nearest £5.
Dr Margaret Bates, head of the UK pEPR scheme administrator PackUK, said the need for an effective pEPR scheme that shifts the cost of managing household packaging waste to producers has “never been more critical”.
“Together, we will deliver a fair and collaborative scheme that addresses the challenges of packaging waste and lays the foundation for a more sustainable and responsible approach to packaging,” Bates said.
Dr Bates, CIWM (Chartered Institution of Wastes Management) President between October 2016 and October 2017, worked as the Managing Director of On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) before she was appointed scheme administrator head.
