Extended Producer Responsibility

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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is an environmental policy approach through which a producer's responsibility for a product is extended to the post-use stage[1].

DEFRA set out in its Resources and Waste Strategy[2] its intention to review existing Producer Responsibility systems (between 2021 and 2024) and potentially develop new schemes for five new waste streams by 2025 (two by 2022):

The first stage consultation on reforming the UK packaging producer responsibility system opened in February and closed in May 2019[3]. The second stage consultation opened in March 2021 and closed in June 2021[4].

This consultation was launched in parallel with consultations on the Consistency in Recycling Collections in England and the implementation of a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) in England, in conjunction with the devolved administration in Wales and DAERA in Northern Ireland.

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