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Extended Producer Responsibility – Packaging Reporting

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Extended Producer Responsibility – Packaging Reporting

EPR – Enormous Paperwork Route 🙂

As of around now (April 2024) Companies in the UK above a certain size (turnover) and handling more than 25 tons of packaging will need to start reporting this to the Government.

If you are over the thresholds for turnover / size then after that it becomes quite difficult to decide what does and doesn’t apply to your organisation!

Some of Easier Checks

“You must collect data about the packaging you’ve supplied within the UK market or imported into the UK for 2023 and from 2024 onward.”

So you have to count packaging you import or supplied to UK market. But what does that mean.

piles of plastic drums and film

This picture shows a large pile of 25 litre plastic drums piled up in the heap.

Example of Extended Producer Responsibility

A fruit distributor imports reusable wooden crates full of apples to the UK, and then packs them in to small plastic crates, lined with disposable plastic film. So of the crates are new, and other reused. The reusable crates are sent back to france, and some of the plastic crates are returned to the distributor for refilling.

What do you keep a record of?

  • You do not record the wooden crate as they are sent back to france so they do not “end up” in the UK.
  • You do not record the used crates, because they are reusable.
  • You do record the new crates as they are new packaging introduced into UK market.
  • You do record the plastic film as this was created and ends it life in UK.

Download Spreadsheet for EPR Records 

Confused?

Yes so are we. But hopefully less confused than you are? 😉 So please contact us for help, and we will assist if we can.

All the best.

Waste Audit Statement for Devon Planning Application 

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Waste Audit Statement for Devon Planning Application

We have recently been commissioned to undertake a Waste Audit Statement for Devon Planning Application. The project is for a residential institution (similar to a care home or sheltered housing).

Picture showing various piles of waste in concrete yard being sorted by an excavator

Sorting of Waste at a Site in the UK

The requirements from the Devon County Council planning officer is as follows:

D.C.C. Waste commented that ‘in order to meet the requirements of Policy W4 of the Devon Waste Plan, we request the following information:

The amount of construction, demolition, and excavation waste in tonnes, set out by the type of material.

 Identify targets for the re-use, recycling and recovery for each waste type from during construction, demolition and excavation, along with the methodology for auditing this waste including a monitoring scheme and corrective measures if failure to meet targets occurs.

o The predicted annual amount of waste, in tonnes, that will be generated once the development is occupied.

o Identify the main types of waste generated when development is occupied.

The details of the waste disposal methods likely to be used.’

Need Some Help?

If you need Waste Audit Statement for Devon Planning Application then we can write one for you, we have been writing waste reports for over decade, and as these reports contain very similar information to site waste management plans, that we have been writing for years, you can expect an efficient service.

Please contact us to discuss you requirements. The quickest way to enable us to quote is to email us some plans, and any comments received from the planning officer.

Waste to Land Feasibility Study – Devon

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Waste to Land Feasibility Study – Devon

Southwest Environmental Limited have recently carried out a Feasibility Study for a Company wishing to apply waste to land. The study was based around determining the amount of waste that could be applied to land for a given benefit.

The process includes using desktop data to build a hypothetical soil condition, and a hypothetical waste composition., These values are then used with nutrient allowance from RB209 to give a allowable tonnage of waste per hectare.

The study is conducted in light of applying for require permissions. There are two requirements for spreading waste to land. Firstly a permit, and secondly a deployment consent.

In order to achieve a successful application for deployment, many factor must be considered the most important of which is proving the waste is a recovery operation to the enforcer (The EA), if this cannot be done then the whole process is doomed from the outset.

Farm Environmental Audit – Dorset

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Southwest Environmental Limited were commissioned by a national charity to make an Farm Environmental Audit or Review of there operations as a site in Dorset.

SWEL do undertake Agricultural work, this aspect suited or remit well in that the main focus of Environmental Audit was Surface Water Management and Waste Management both are topics we have considerable experience in.

A review was made of the premises, and a 21 page report was issued within 3 days of the visit, detailing findings and recommendations. We focused on low cost solutions to the problem in hand avoiding large capital expenditure requirements focusing on improvements to operating techniques and site management.