Sustainability Credentials

As part of the PackUK Interim Steering Group, we are well placed to support our customers in interpreting their packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) obligations. We can help to guide you through your responsibilities and support your compliance, please contact us for additional information.

Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) is a new packaging reform in the UK that seeks to reduce the environmental impact of packaging and increase recycling rates.

It aims to do this by incentivising producers to only place recyclable packaging materials on the market. It assigns 100% of the financial responsibility to one producer in the supply chain. Organisations are classified under pEPR depending on the activity they perform in the supply chain, their turnover, and the amount of packaging they place on the market.

Our reference to ‘compostable materials’ means that the materials utilised to make the relevant product are certified to the EN 13432 standard and are suitable for composting in industrial composting facilities.

Find out more on our compostable food packaging page.

We are ready and able to help you with any queries on the Recyclability Assessment Methodology (RAM) and packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR). We are able to provide RAM assessments for all the products we sell and can help you to understand the details of the material categories.

The Recyclability Assessment Methodology (RAM) is a framework under the UK packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) legislation that assesses the recyclability of packaging materials. It assesses material composition against the following criteria:

• Collection
• Sortation
• Application
• Reprocessing

In addition, it assigns a further red, amber, or green (RAG) sub-category to each product.

• Red: difficult to recycle at scale
• Amber: some challenges during collection and sortation, requires specialist infrastructure for reprocesses, or other issues
• Green: widely recyclable in current infrastructure