SAMIAN SOLUTIONS are now fully equipped to collect, compile and report your Packaging data to meet the UK Packaging Legislation
You must comply with the Producer Responsibility Obligations if your business:
- handles more than 50 tonnes of packaging in a year and
- has a turnover of more than £2 million (based on the previous financial year).
The obligations apply to the total amount of packaging that your business handles, not the amount of packaging waste that your business produces.
What you must do
Under the Essential Requirements, you must:
Minimise packaging weight and volume (subject to safety, hygiene and consumer acceptance).
Make sure packaging can be recovered. Some or all of the packaging must be able to either be recycled, have energy recovered from it, or be composted or reused.
See the packaging recovery methods below.
Packaging recovery methods
Produce packaging that is reusable by increasing its durability.
Make sure packaging has a minimal impact on the environment after disposal
Make sure packaging is manufactured to contain minimum levels of hazardous substances.
Make sure the amount of cadmium, mercury, lead and hexavalent chromium, or any combination of these heavy metals, does not exceed 100 parts per million (ppm) by weight. These limits apply to packaging plus any packaging components, calculated as a whole unit. For example components such as lids do not have to meet these limits independently.
Keep records
You must have evidence that your packaging complies with the Essential Requirements. You must keep evidence for at least four years from the date the packaging was first placed on the market. How you hold this information is up to you. You may need to keep a variety of document types to ensure you have evidence for all of the requirements.
You could keep records of:
- existing technical documents on the design and use of your packaging
- existing quality assurance documents
- environmental management systems and auditing documents
- documents relating to other packaging standards.
