EPR - Is your business obligated? (DEFRA update)

EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY - Update from DEFRA

Is your business obligated? 

To assist you in understanding whether your business is obligated under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), DEFRA have developed an online Obligation Checker.

This interactive tool will help you assess whether you meet the thresholds. 

To understand the obligations under EPR, it is important to differentiate between two distinct sets of obligations.

• The first is the waste cost and recycling obligations, with an obligation to report placed on the market data, meet recycling obligations, and pay disposal costs for Local Authority collected waste.
• The second is the nation of sale obligation, with an obligation to report where packaging is disposed, broken down by nation within the UK. 

Use the Obligation Checker tool to find out:

• if the regulations apply to you
• whether you’ll need to pay a fee
• what you need to do next to comply with the regulations

Read the full update here, including Obligation Checker FAQs