Packaging and products
Battery regulations: producer responsibility and take-back
Anyone who places batteries on the UK market for the first time, on their own or inside equipment, is a battery producer under the Waste Batteries and Accumulators...
Packaging and products
If you brand, fill, import or sell packaged goods, electricals, batteries or drinks, a growing set of producer-responsibility rules decides what you report and what you pay. These guides explain packaging EPR and the plastic packaging tax, the deposit return scheme due in October 2027, the WEEE and battery regimes, and the single-use plastics bans in each nation.
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Packaging and products
Deposit return scheme for drinks containers (from October 2027)
From 1 October 2027 a deposit will be added to single-use drinks containers of 150ml to 3 litres made of PET plastic, aluminium or steel across the UK, refunded when...
Packaging and products
Packaging EPR (extended producer responsibility for packaging)
Packaging EPR makes the businesses that put packaging on the UK market pay the full cost of collecting and managing it when it becomes household waste. You are...
Packaging and products
Plastic packaging tax
Plastic packaging tax is charged on finished plastic packaging components manufactured in or imported into the UK that contain less than 30% recycled plastic. The...
Packaging and products
Single-use plastics bans, vapes, wet wipes and carrier bag charges
Each UK nation bans the supply of a list of single-use plastic items, enforced by councils and Trading Standards: plastic cutlery, plates, bowls, trays, balloon...
Packaging and products
WEEE regulations: producers, retailers and online marketplaces
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2013 make anyone who manufactures, imports or rebrands electrical equipment for the UK market a producer who...