NEWS Archive
Defra/ webinar on timeline for modulated fee development – 18 AUGUST 2023
The delay to the implementation of EPR by a year means that producers will not get charged the waste fee until 2025. This is the...
The RPD system for EPR packaging data is now open for enrolment – 16 AUGUST 2023
Under the EPR Data Regulations, large producers (over £2m t/o and that handle more than 50 tonnes of packaging in a year) must...
Defra webinar on EPR data producer enrolment – 14 AUGUST 2023
A Defra webinar to Compliance Schemes this morning went through 'bite-size' videos they have produced - a series of slides -...
Defra Business Readiness Forum newsletter – 08 AUGUST 2023
Defra has just published their Resources and Waste Newsletter covering the various issues that were discussed in the Business...
Defra publishes Waste Prevention Programme for England – 28 JULY 2023
Defra publishes Waste Prevention Programme for England
Defra publishes EPR draft regs for consultation – 28th July
Defra consultation page
EPR waste fees delayed by a year – 25 July 2023
Letsrecycle article
Plastic Packaging Tax – chemical recycling and adoption of a mass balance approach – 18 July 2023
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/plastic-packaging-tax-chemical-recycling-and-adoption-of-a-mass-balance-approach/plast...
NAO report highly critical of Defra resources and waste delivery delays – 30 June 2023
https://cdn.ca.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/06/Governments-resources-and-waste-reforms-.pdf
EPR registration system delayed
At a recent meeting of the packaging Compliance Scheme Engagement Group, Defra announced a delayed timetable for implementation...
Monksleigh publishes UK MRF Market Report
Consultants Monksleigh have published their UK Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) Report 2023.
Latest Defra EPR Business Readiness Forum update
Emailed 2/6/23 COLLECTION AND PACKAGING REFORMS NEWSLETTERIn this edition (2 June 2023): Business Readiness Forum summary and...
Non-WEEE cable now classed as hazardous
The EA has published a Regulatory Position Statement 276 effectively now classing non-WEEE cable as hazardous. The full text of...
EA clarifies the position on Mixed Paper packaging PRN protocol
It seems that the EA approved a number of paper reprocessor and exporter S&I Plans that stated they would be doing their own...
EA publish EPR Technical Interpretations document
Key guidance for those involved in the current packaging regulations has always been the Agencies' 'Technical Interpretations...
Packaging producer non-compliance lack of enforcement
At the end of 2021, the following 13 packaging producers were found by the EA to have failed to have complied with their 2021...
EA publishes packaging regs Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Activity
The Packaging Waste Regulations require the Agencies to publish their Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement plans for the year....
EPR seller nation data lunacy
One of the (many) mysteries of the new EPR regime is the way that the seller nation data has to be reported. A Defra...
Defra publishes amendments to the EPR data SI
Emailed by Defra Friday 21st April Extended Producer Responsibility Publication of the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting)...
Defra Business Readiness Forum Definitions slides 14 April
Defra held a business Readiness Forum webinar on 14th April with a number of slides and with some added commentary that will be...
External news links
- Defra launches consultation on the banning of biodegradable waste to landfill – 26 MAY 2023
- Tolvik publishes 2022 UK Waste to Energy report – 10 MAY 2023
- Scottish DRS delayed until March 2024 – 19 APRIL 2023
- Landfill Tax rates to rise by less than expected in 2024 – 06 APRIL 2023
- Defra publishes Consultation on Civil Sanctions – 03 APRIL 2023
- Commons publish report on Landfill Tax fraud – 10 JANUARY 2023
- Waste Tracking Consultation responses published – 20 DECEMBER 2022
- EFRA Committee calls for a ban on plastic waste exports by 2030 – 07 NOVEMBER 2022
- Lack of waste transfer notes leads to £5000 fine – 25 OCTOBER 2022
- Damning Public Accounts Committee report into waste crime ‘decriminalisation’ – 21 OCTOBER 2022
- Defra updates EPR guidance – 07 OCTOBER 2022
- EA publishes RPS for packaging producers wishing to use the allocation method for 2023 target calculation – 30 SEPTEMBER 2022
- EA publishes letter to Councils on POPs in fabric covered seating – 08 SEPTEMBER 2022
- EA publishes consultation on Standard Rules permit consolidation – 22 JUNE 2022