Obligated businesses must submit 2024 packaging data by 1 April 2025 under new extended producer responsibility for packaging scheme.
The deadline is approaching for businesses to submit 2024 packaging data under the new extended producer responsibility for packaging (pEPR) scheme.
pEPR is designed to move the cost of dealing with household packaging waste away from taxpayers onto the businesses who produce the packaging. It will incentivise businesses to reduce unnecessary packaging and use more recycled and recyclable packaging, leading to less waste to landfill and reducing the release of damaging CO2 emissions.
Under legislation which came into force on 1 January 2024, large organisations must submit their July-December 2024 data by 1 April.
Small organisations must submit their January-December 2024 data in one annual submission by 1 April.
In addition, all obligated organisations, large and small, must also register with their environmental regulator by the same date. Guidance on how to register can be found here.
If obligated packaging producers have neither reported their data nor registered, they could face enforcement action.
To check whether your business needs to report packaging data, you should refer to EPR who is affected and what to do and, if necessary, follow the online instructions to access the new Report Packaging Data service.
Find out more about the pEPR scheme, if your business has obligations, and how to comply.
First published 25 March 2025
