Data

Packaging data as of 27 July 2010 - Excel Spreadsheet showing summary of:

• Packaging placed on the market (2010 registrations)
• Obligations
• Reprocessing and exports 2007 - Q1 2010

Data is issued by the Environment Agency through the National Packaging Waste Database.

It comes as two key datasets:

• The demand side created by the sum of registered producer obligations. This isnormally first published for the year by early May and is then automatically updated as producers register late or re-submit data.
• The supply side is created by the amount of packaging material reprocessed and exported and is published quarterly, usually by 23rd of the month following a quarter. Once published, it is then automatically updated following any corrections.

EU packaging data can be found here. This given a comparison across all member states up to 2007.