Extended producer responsibility for packaging (or pEPR): the significance of this long-time-coming regulation is in the name. Or it’s meant to be, with those producing packaging responsible for 100% of the costs for collecting, sorting and treating it. So why have hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of businesses decided to ignore a requirement to submit their packaging data?
Read the full article on the Footprint website
NAM Implications:
- The current issue is business survival…
- …and with many SMEs struggling to keep the door open…
- …EPR imposes an unimaginable extra burden on the more vulnerable.
- Time for a (new?) government to acknowledge market realities?
