The response analysis to the EPR consultation was published ahead of purdah starting on Monday (28 March) Defra said it will instead adopt an “interim solution” based around the current PRN system.

With the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Environment Agency introducing new regulations under the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging, every ...

Operators have signed an open letter calling for packaging supplied to hospitality businesses to be exempt from the ...

Under the umbrella of UKHospitality (UKH), leading pub and hospitality businesses have written to Defra Secretary of State, Steve Reed, pushing back against a significant flaw in the Extended Producer ...

So could PackUK be run by the private sector? Defra has already made some concessions towards a producer-led EPR system. In October, environment minister Mary Creagh and her counterparts for the ...

PackUK will start its work today (21 January), the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed, ahead of the new EPR rules launching this April. The new administrator ...