1,800 Additional Packaging Producers Brought into Compliance with pEPR

A new Parliamentary answer states that the government compliance activity has brought almost 1,800 additional packaging producers into compliance.

This activity includes:

• Environmental regulators: monitoring producer compliance and data accuracy.
• DEFRA, PackUK and regulators: refining guidance, calculations and compliance activity to improve future fee calculations.

It was confirmed that PackUK’s administration costs for 2025/26 were £18million.

Across the UK, £1.43 billion was paid to local authorities to cover the cost of managing household packaging waste.

The FPA conducted some research earlier this year, identifying an increase in newly incorporated packaging-related manufacturers and wholesalers, yet there is comparatively limited representation on the published producer registers.

The research raised questions over whether the registered producer base fully reflected businesses potentially operating within scope.

The FPA have stated that they would welcome greater transparency on how the additional 1,800 producers were identified.

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