NEWS Archive

Key guidance for those involved in the current packaging regulations has always been the Agencies' 'Technical Interpretations...

At the end of 2021, the following 13 packaging producers were found by the EA to have failed to have complied with their 2021...

The Packaging Waste Regulations require the Agencies to publish their Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement plans for the year....

One of the (many) mysteries of the new EPR regime is the way that the seller nation data has to be reported. A Defra...

Emailed by Defra Friday 21st April Extended Producer Responsibility  Publication of the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting)...

Defra held a business Readiness Forum webinar on 14th April with a number of slides and with some added commentary that will be...

Next Future Business Readiness Forums Tuesday 18 April, 10-11.00 am - Join here The forum will run for 1 hour with a focus on...

Defra has sent out a newsletter providing further information on EPR and DRS. For those following EPR, there has been concern at...

The recent government response on Exemption reform did not provide details of how the transition would work for those currently...

The management of waste containing Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) has become a much more complex issue over the last three...

It's been a long time coming, but following a consultation on changes to the Exemption regime in England and Wales, the...

Defra has finally published their response to the DRS consultation issued in March 2021. It has obviously been a tortuous...

In line with the tightening up of Best Practice conditions that sites with Environmental Permits must operate under, the EA has...

EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITYIs your business obligated? To assist you in understanding whether your business is obligated...

EU Skills Competence Management System approved in NI The EU Skills Competence Management System can now be used in Northern...

We have now added a new page about the Extended Producer Responsibility system due to commence from 1 January 2023 with data...

Any doubts over whether EPR will go ahead as planned have been dispelled by the publication of the data Statutory Instrument...

Confused about the new EPR Reporting requirements? Well join the club. But help may be at hand as Defra has just emailed out...

At about this time each year, the EA publishes the consolidated data reported by permitted sites in their quarterly returns -...

Following the publication of the Government's 1 April response to the EPR consultation, Defra has produced guidance to help...