Packaging data service levels 2025: Producer Responsibility Regulatory Services
Updated 24 April 2025
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The UK environmental regulators involved are:
- Environment Agency
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency
- Natural Resources Wales
In this document we refer to these regulators as ‘the agencies’.
This document provides a list of:
- data input requirements
- the agencies’ service levels (known as outputs)
Applies to:
- accredited reprocessors
- accredited exporters
Packaging data service level: 2025
Accredited reprocessors quarterly returns and accredited exporters quarterly returns
Submission deadlines are:
- quarter 1: 21 April 2025
- quarter 2: 21 July 2025
- quarter 3: 21 October 2025
- quarter 4: 28 February 2026
Analysis and validation: UK summary of recovery and recycling
Output: dynamic public reports
This report uses live data from the National Packaging Waste Database (NPWD) so the overall figures for each quarter will fluctuate throughout the year as individual reprocessors and exporters quarterly returns are amended and resubmitted.
The dynamic reports are unvalidated. Dates for the publication of verified data are given in the next section.
The dynamic reports will be removed from NPWD following publication of the final 2025 recycling data on 27 March 2026.
Aggregated amount of waste packaging by material will be published monthly. This data is unvalidated. Publication will fall around the 10th day of each month.
Publication dates are:
- quarter 1: 22 April 2025
- quarter 2: 22 July 2025
- quarter 3: 22 October 2025
- quarter 4: available following approval from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Output: verified public reports
As the data is superseded each quarter the previously published version will be removed from the database and updated.
Final data will be shared with Defra before public release on 27 March 2026.
Publication dates are:
- quarter 1: 15 May 2025
- quarters 1 to 2: 22 August 2025
- quarters 1 to 3: 21 November 2025
- quarters 1 to 4: 27 March 2026
Accredited reprocessors revenue submissions and accredited exporters revenue submissions
Submission deadline: 28 February 2026.
Analysis and validation: UK reprocessor and exporter packaging recovery note revenue report
Verified public reports
No dynamic report is available.
The publication date for the agency verified public report is 27 March 2026.
Reprocessor and exporter accreditation applications
Submission deadline: 30 September 2024.
Analysis and validation: the accreditation public register.
Output
No dynamic report is available.
The agency verified public report is available all year (2025). It is updated automatically.
Large producer direct registrant registration data and scheme member registration data
Submission deadlines:
- 1 October 2025 for direct registrants
- 1 October 2025 for scheme members
Analysis and validation:
- UK packaging handled broken down by material and type
- public reports
Reports containing aggregated data are only available for UK packaging handled.
These reports are extracted from the report packaging data (RPD) service every 2 months.
The overall figures will fluctuate throughout the year as resubmissions take place and additional companies register.
Large producer packaging publication dates
Publication dates are:
- 15 May 2025 – update 2024 H1 and add 2024 H2 data (no update to 2023 data)
- 15 July 2025 – update 2024 H1 and H2 data
- 15 Sept 2025 – update 2024 H1 and H2 data
- 14 Nov 2025 – update 2024 H1 and H2 data and add 2025 H1 data
- 15 Jan 2026 – update 2024 H1 and H2 data and 2025 H1 data
- 16 Mar 2026 – update 2024 H1 and H2 data and 2025 H1 data
- 15 May 2026 – update 2025 H1 and add H2 data (no update to 2024 data)
What these reports do and do not cover
The reports include packaging data submitted by UK large producers.
The figures do not include:
- data from large producers who are required to report their data but have not
- data from large producers who reported their data after the date it was extracted from the RPD system
This includes some partial data submitted:
- 2023 data: this includes some partial data submitted in H1 (January to June submission) for 1 March to 30 June 2023. For Welsh producers, some data submitted covered only 17 July to 31 December 2023
- 2024 data: this includes some partial data submitted in H1 (January to June submission) for 1 April to 30 June 2024