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Extended producer responsibility for packaging: 2023 reported packaging data
pEPR 2023 Reported Packaging Data (14/10/24)
This data report provides the UK aggregated packaging data, broken down by material and packaging type in tonnes, that has been reported for 2023 under the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) Regulations 2023.
This data was extracted from the Report Packaging Data (RPD) service on the 14th October 2024. RPD is the digital service for the extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging. Find out more about EPR.
This data will be updated periodically by the UK regulators.
What this report does and does not cover
These figures include 2023 packaging data submitted by UK large producers; the figures do not include:
• Data from large producers who are required to report their data but have not
• Data from large producers who reported their 2023 data after the 14th October 2024
This includes some partial data submitted for 1 March to 31 December 2023. For Welsh producers, some data submitted covered 17 July to 31 December 2023.
This data has no uplift applied where producers have submitted partial data.
The data is subject to change due to late submissions, resubmissions and new submissions.
This is the first year of reporting under the Data reporting regulations. The regulators have a duty to monitor the accuracy of pEPR data submitted into RPD; these checks are ongoing. Regulators are also working with producers to identify and correct possible data errors. As a result, the data that makes up these total figures may include reporting issues that have not yet been addressed.
2023 data is not impacted by The Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 as passed in each nation within the UK. For example, the requirement to report drinks containers supplied in Scotland was excluded for the calendar year 2023. The requirement to report drinks containers supplied in Scotland was introduced from 2024 onwards.
What is classed as a ‘large producer’
An organisation is a ‘large producer’ if it:
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has an annual turnover of more than £2 million
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is responsible for handling more than 50 tonnes of packaging in the UK
Illustrative base fees
In September 2024, to prepare businesses for the implementation of the packaging EPR scheme, the four UK Government administrations published a second updated set of illustrative base fees – these can be found here gov.uk.
Packaging data used by Defra for the illustrative base fees process differs from the above data for the following reasons:
- the data was extracted from RPD on a different date
- illustrative base fee data was uplifted where producers submitted partial data to align with the full reporting period
- the illustrative base fees for glass were calculated using estimated tonnages of packaging placed on the market by obligated producers from the ‘PackFlow Refresh 2023 reports’ (please access the latest set of illustrative base for further information)
- the offset within the illustrative base fee calculations for self-managed consumer waste was applied at the producer level.
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