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Please see comments in bold below explaining how different sections impact members:
- Circular Economy Reflections & Outlook: Impacts how companies design products for reuse, remanufacturing, or recycling, and the use of materials collected and made available through recycling, etc.
- Simpler Recycling in England: This impacts how companies collect and sort waste for recycling
- Simpler Recycling Communications Toolkit
- Deposit Return Scheme: update
- Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR): Requires reporting of data by manufacturers and importers of packaging and will involve a fee for packaging materials placed on the market. Replaces the current packaging reporting and fee legislation. Impacts decisions regarding packaging design, and use of recycled materials in packaging.
- Packaging EPR update: Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024Requires reporting of data by manufacturers and importers of packaging and will involve a fee for packaging materials placed on the market. Replaces the current packaging reporting and fee legislation. Impacts decisions regarding packaging design, and use of recycled materials in packaging. Will also impact packaging labeling for recyclability, and material type identification.
- EPR Scheme Administrator (SA): (See above, impacts how the scheme will be run, and how charges will be determined, and how fess will be collected).
- EPR Recyclability Assessment Methodology: (See above, impacts how the how charges will be determined)
- Environment Agency: update
- Mandatory Cups Takeback Scheme Cancellation
- WEEE: Online marketplaces and vapes announcement: (Will impact Electronic and Electrical Equipment e.g. IVD instruments sold through Online market places in terms of fees and WEEE recovery obligations, especially self-test devices sold through these routes to market).
