Over the next few years, a series of new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes will fundamentally change who pays for waste management, how materials are designed, collected and recycled, and ultimately what businesses are allowed to place on the market.
For decades, the true cost of dealing with difficult, non-recyclable and waste heavy products has largely fallen on local authorities, businesses and taxpayers. The new EPR framework aims to reverse that model by shifting the financial and operational responsibility back onto the producers placing materials onto the market in the first place.Packaging is only the beginning.
The UK is now moving towards wider producer responsibility schemes covering sectors such as batteries, electrical equipment, textiles, tyres, furniture and other hard to recycle waste streams; many of which have historically escaped meaningful end of life accountability.
Alongside Simpler Recycling, Digital Waste Tracking, the Deposit Return Scheme and future carbon legislation, EPR will become one of the defining drivers shaping procurement, packaging design, recycling systems and disposal costs throughout the late 2020s and beyond.
In simple terms:
The era of “someone else will deal with it at the end” is slowly coming to an end.
This document provides an overview of the proposed and emerging UK EPR schemes, what they are intended to achieve and what organisations should now be preparing for. more like this (EPR) - link - more like this (tyres) - link - more like this (CGN 04) - link
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