ATTENDING TO OBLIGATIONS

The easiest way to attend to packaging recovery obligations is to make a contract with the Environmental Register of Packaging PYR Ltd. Once a firm has registered with PYR, it also enrols with producer organisations for the packaging sector. Then the firm itself does not need to organise the recovery of the packaging it has placed on the market or to report on the effectiveness of recovery to the authorities.

Packaging recovery is recovery as material for new products or recovery as energy. To enable the organisation of recovery, a firm should know where the packaging containing the products placed on the market has ended up. The packaging also has to be collected from the market and its recovery organised and paid for. It is virtually impossible for a firm to be able to arrange this itself. The firm also has to report to the authorities on the extent and quantity of the packaging it has placed on the market and how the recovery of the packaging has been organised. Information on collection centres for packaging waste, collection and transport should also be reported to the authorities. Customers must also be informed about recovery activities.

A firm that has registered with PYR:

• has transferred its packaging recovery obligations to the producer organisations
• is not obliged to organise recovery or report to the authorities about this.