Prepare your packaging for EPR

Is your packaging EPR ready? If you're using more than 50 tonnes of packaging a year and have a turnover of £2m, you could be liable for EPR fees. Prepare your packaging with Macfarlane to mitigate fees today. 

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Navigate EPR with confidence

 

Prepare your packaging for EPR with the Macfarlane team: 

EPR Cost Assessments – our tools, like the Packaging Optimiser, and our packaging experts can help you assess what EPR costs you can expect for current packaging solutions or new designs.

EPR Packaging Reviews – we can conduct holistic packaging audits and stretch film reviews to help you use less packaging and improve your packaging costs across key areas like damages and returns, storage and more to drive down expenditure. 

Packaging Optimisatiton – we can help you design packaging that's lighter and easier to recycle, minimising your EPR liability. Our Innovation Lab facilities can even provide stringent E-PASS and climatic chamber testing, so new, lighter designs still provide ideal protection for your products. 

Easy-to-Recycle Packaging Products – we can offer thousands of easy-to-recycle packaging products, alongside packaging with high recycled content, helping you improve overall sustainability while preparing for EPR. 

Simplify Packaging Data Reporting – with EPR reporting now in effect for obligated businesses, packaging data is more important than ever. Macfarlane offers easy one-click reporting through our e-trading platform and can provide tailored EPR dashboards. 

Free EPR Advice – Macfarlane experts have explained EPR and distilled information into articles, free downloads and videos so it's straightforward for you to understand Extended Producer Responsibility and its potential impact on your packaging. 

What is Extended Producer Responsibility? 

Extended Producer Responsibility, aka ERR, is new UK legislation that makes businesses, not councils, pay the full cost of recycling household packaging waste.

 

You’ll need to report detailed data and pay fees based on your packaging material's weight, composition and recyclability.

 

Your obligations depend on your business size and the type of packaging you place on the market.

 

Act now to avoid penalties and control costs.

 

Does EPR apply to you?

The expected impact of EPR 

£2bn

the expected new cost of EPR to responsible UK businesses

7,000

the number of businesses already registered for EPR reporting 

2025

when EPR fees are set to be introduced for responsible businesses

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Packed with everything you need to understand Extended Producer Responsibility in relation to packaging.

Download it today
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Get more in-depth information about Extended Producer Responsibility from the Macfarlane Packaging team, including FAQs & bite-size explainer videos. 

Learn more about EPR
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Fees will be modulated by recyclability from 2026. Understand how PackUK will determine how easy packaging is to recycle, in simplified terms. 

Download the guide