Packaging
You must comply with packaging regulations if your business makes, fills, sells or handles packaging or packaging materials.
If your business produces or handles packaging and you fail to comply with the regulations you could be prosecuted and fined.
The packaging waste regulations ensure that businesses are responsible for recovering and recycling UK packaging waste.
There are two sets of regulations you may need to comply with:
The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations apply to you if your business produces packaged products, or places packaging or packaged goods on the market.
The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations apply to you if your business handles more than 50 tonnes of packaging in a year and has a turnover of more than £2 million.
- What is packaging?
- Essential Requirements - what you must do
- Essential Requirements – exemptions from the regulations
- Producer Responsibility Obligations - who they apply to
- Producer Responsibility Obligations - what you must do
- Producer Responsibility Obligations - how to comply
- Reprocessors and exporters – what you must do
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Packaging good practice
- Further information on packaging
- Packaging legislation
