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Obligated packaging producers must register and meet their waste packaging recycling responsibilities.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Packaging regulations: environmental requirements, recycling
How to apply for PCS approval, register, take on packaging producer responsibilities and comply under the approval.
Sign in or create an account for your organisation to report packaging data. This means it can comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology.
Local wildlife trusts to receive a £20,000+ windfall.
How to work out the weight of plastic packaging components and each material used to make them, to check if you must register for Plastic Packaging Tax and include them on your return.
Find out if you need to report packaging data under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How UK organisations that supply or import packaging should comply with extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to register for Plastic Packaging Tax.
Check when packaging is classified as a finished plastic packaging component, and what is meant by substantial modifications, to find out if you must register for the tax.
How to register a group of companies for Plastic Packaging Tax.
How to apply for accreditation, comply with your accreditation and packaging waste technical information.
How to package medicines for sale and what information you must provide to consumers and healthcare professionals.
When and how to submit a return and how to make an amendment after it’s been submitted.
Waste Package guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
If you need to submit packaging data under extended producer responsibility for packaging, this spreadsheet can help you generate a valid packaging data file
If you need to submit packaging data under extended producer responsibility for packaging this example file shows how you must structure your data.
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