Oct 1st, 2024
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To prepare businesses for the implementation of the packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme, on 30th September, the four UK administrations published the second in a series of illustrative base fees.
This latest document provides updated illustrative base fees for year 1 of Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging. It relates to fees that would be charged to obligated packaging producers by the Scheme Administrator. It does not cover:
- Regulator fees and charges paid to the Environment Agency, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, and Natural Resources Wales
- Costs associated with meeting packaging recycling targets, for example through the purchase of Packaging Waste Recycling Notes
Worth noting:
- The version of Defra’s model used to calculate fees uses estimated packaging volumes as the basis for apportioning dry recycling collection costs and estimated packaging weight to apportion dry recycling disposal costs and residual waste management costs.
- Ranges of costs for the materials have narrowed because DEFRA’s data reported from producers has improved significantly from earlier in the year
- For some materials, costs per tonne have not just narrowed, but also lowered (see Table 1)
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