Producer Responsibility Obligations - what you must do

If the Producer Responsibility Obligations apply to your business you must:

  • register with your environmental regulator, either directly or through a producer compliance scheme
  • pay for the recovery and recycling of certain amounts of packaging waste
  • provide evidence to your environmental regulator, using electronic packaging recovery notes (ePRNs) and packaging export recovery notes (ePERNs).

    ePRNs are issued electronically by accredited reprocessors who accept packaging waste and issue a note stating how much packaging waste they have recovered or recycled.

    ePERNs are issued electronically by accredited exporters when packaging waste is exported to approved reprocessors outside of the UK.

    If your main packaging activity is selling packaging or packaged goods you must provide information to your customers about:

    • reusing, recovering and recycling packaging
    • the collection facilities available to them.

      Further information

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