Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a resource management tool whereby producers maintain the responsibility for their products and packaging to the end-of-life management of their used products. This can include collection, sorting and treatment for recycling and recovery.
In practice, most EPR schemes impose financial fees on packaging producers to fund the waste management of their packaging waste. This report examines the pros; funding for waste management, incentives for sustainable package design and more sustainable production and consumption, while also exploring the criticism of EPR schemes; complexity, lack of transparency and encouraging a linear waste model.
The EU will plan to introduce EPR Modulation in 2024. This will seek to adjust current EPR fees in member states to reward more ‘sustainable’ package design usage, while penalizing more problematic packaging In China and India, regulations have centred more around plastic bans with minimal use of taxation and financial incentives as a lever to encourage sustainable packaging currently.
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The intent of this report is to review the multiple financial and fiscal actions, both in place and under investigation, across the packaging value chain. Such actions include existing EPR schemes with corresponding recycling targets in various countries, and recently introduced plastic taxes in individual countries and in the EU. The report also reviews expected future actions such as EPR Modulation, littering fees to cover both land and marine clean up, actions to encourage and even mandate recycled content into packaging, the mandating of some package design changes, and bans of some of most polluting plastic articles.
The Smithers methodology
This report is based on extensive primary and secondary research. Primary research consisted of targeted interviews with material suppliers, converters and experts drawn from key markets. This was supported by secondary research in the form of extensive literature analysis of published data, official government statistics, domestic and international trade organisation data, company websites, industry reports, trade press articles, presentations, and attendance at trade events.
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Dr Neil Rogers is an award-winning package development consultant. He spent 25 years with the Procter & Gamble Company as their global expert in flexible packaging, sustainability, bottle packing & labelling, open innovation and supplier management. He was elected to the board of the CEFLEX Consortium and has also worked for Yara International. He also has extensive experience in R&D, procurement and packaging.
In practice, most EPR schemes impose financial fees on packaging producers to fund the waste management of their packaging waste. This report examines the pros; funding for waste management, incentives for sustainable package design and more sustainable production and consumption, while also exploring the criticism of EPR schemes; complexity, lack of transparency and encouraging a linear waste model.
The EU will plan to introduce EPR Modulation in 2024. This will seek to adjust current EPR fees in member states to reward more ‘sustainable’ package design usage, while penalizing more problematic packaging In China and India, regulations have centred more around plastic bans with minimal use of taxation and financial incentives as a lever to encourage sustainable packaging currently.
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- An in-depth look at what EPR is, how it can benefit the industry and the implication it holds for plastic packaging producers, converters and brand owners
- Examination into the pros and cons of EPR legislation as a method of reducing waste from plastic packaging
- A look at the current fee structures and forecasts of how fee modulation will change based on recyclability and reusability.
The intent of this report is to review the multiple financial and fiscal actions, both in place and under investigation, across the packaging value chain. Such actions include existing EPR schemes with corresponding recycling targets in various countries, and recently introduced plastic taxes in individual countries and in the EU. The report also reviews expected future actions such as EPR Modulation, littering fees to cover both land and marine clean up, actions to encourage and even mandate recycled content into packaging, the mandating of some package design changes, and bans of some of most polluting plastic articles.
The Smithers methodology
This report is based on extensive primary and secondary research. Primary research consisted of targeted interviews with material suppliers, converters and experts drawn from key markets. This was supported by secondary research in the form of extensive literature analysis of published data, official government statistics, domestic and international trade organisation data, company websites, industry reports, trade press articles, presentations, and attendance at trade events.
Who should buy the report?
- Brand owners
- Packaging manufacturers
- Packaging converters
- Raw Material Suppliers
Dr Neil Rogers is an award-winning package development consultant. He spent 25 years with the Procter & Gamble Company as their global expert in flexible packaging, sustainability, bottle packing & labelling, open innovation and supplier management. He was elected to the board of the CEFLEX Consortium and has also worked for Yara International. He also has extensive experience in R&D, procurement and packaging.
Name The Impact of EPR Legislation on the Packaging Industry to 2032
Date 5/27/2022
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Key Facts and Figures
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- Abbreviations relating to legislative action & NGOs
- Definitions related to legal action and NGOs
- Technical definitions
- Technical abbreviations
- Differences in how EPR and PROs operate within different EU countries.
- An overview of EPR fees for packaging in EU member states as of 2021
- An overview of the variation in EPR modulation in different European countries.
- Fost Plus EPR fee structure for packaging in 2021
- A timetable for updates to the WFD as part of the Circular Economy Action Plan
- Recommended Fee Categories for Packaging EPR Schemes
- Summary of recyclability guidelines from different organisations within the packaging value chain
- EPBP Summary Design Guidelines for Transparent Clear / Light Blue PET Bottles
- Plastics Recyclers Europe Summary Design Guidance for PE Transparent Flexible Film
- Likely Fee structure for EPR Recyclability Modulation
- Updated Packaging Recycling Targets to 2030 arising from the PPWD.
- Overview of EU member state packaging – environmental legislative.
- Timetable of actions arising from the Single-use plastics Directive.
- An overview of the EPR and environmental situation with respect to packaging in a selection of countries in 2022.
- An approximate timetable of likely legislative changes in a selection of countries considered in this report up to 2022-2032
- The top 10 country list of plastic pollution by weight plus other selected countries for both mismanaged waste and marine litter
- The eight PROs operating in Germany to enact their EPR policy.
- Details of the French Circular Economy Law introduced in February 2020.
- The eight PROs operating in Germany to enact their EPR policy.
- Details of the proposed UK EPR Law, introduced on the 26th March 2022.
- The proposed UK recycling targets
- Fost Plus EPR fee structure for packaging in 2021
- Fost Plus Tariff Structure for PET bottles in 2021
- The proposals within the “California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act”
- Plastic products and packaging whose production & sale are prohibited in China
- A qualitative comparisons of the environmental impact / sustainability of different packaging materials as of 2022.
- The expected impact of EPR and other financial measures on different packaging materials to 2032.
- Recent development to improve the performance of paper packaging to enable plastic packaging replacement.
- Recent developments in paper packaging to enable replacement of glass and plastic bottles
- Package development strategies being considered to address EPR and other legislative changes to 2032.
- Summary of recyclability guidelines from different packaging organisations
- Fost Plus Tariff Structure for PET bottles in 2021
- Recent development to improve the performance of paper packaging to enable plastic flexible packaging replacement.
- Recent developments in paper packaging to enable replacement of glass and plastic bottles
Figures
- A summary of the main financial & fiscal initiative in the EU regarding packaging
- A schematic detailing the typical material flow, funding flow and contract agreements between PROs and the packaging value chain
- Tesco’s preferred packaging material list
- A summary of the main implementation elements of the German VerpackG (Packaging Act)
- Example of a continuous and increasing EPR fees from Citeo
- Maturity of recycling systems for different plastic resin in France in 2022
- Proposed uplift of basic EPR tariff based on the level of development or recycling
- Treatment of China’s municipal waste excluding recycling
- The EU’s Waste Hierarchy and how the linear and circular economy fit into this hierarchy
