Packaging Waste

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The Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (as amended) set minimum Recovery (60%) and Recycling (55%) targets for Packaging waste to be met by 31 December 2008, as well as material specific targets.

Material Specific Targets

These material specific targets were:

Member States must continue to meet these minimum standards, but are free to set higher domestic targets if they chose. The provisional figures indicate 70.2% of UK Packaging Waste was either recycled or recovered in 2017 [1]. The mechanism used to deliver evidence and drive the Packaging Waste targets is delivered in the UK through the PRN system.

UK Targets and Progress

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Packaging Waste And Recycling/Recovery UK 2017 (provisional) (Extract DEFRA)


References

  1. UK Statistics on Waste 2019 updating some of the 2018 Digest with 2017 data