In 2026, the packaging Extemded Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations see the application of modulated fees to large producers. This will require affected businesses to apply an assessment process to all obligated packaging to determine recyclability. The results of this will then determine whether the waste fee to be paid on that packaging will have a premium or discount applied.
A new verion of this assessment tool – RAM v1.1 – has just been published. It will need to be applied to all packaging reported by large producers for 2025 starting with data for H1 2025 than needs to be submitted by 1 October 2025.