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Consultation on recycling targets for packaging for 2008 and thereafter

This consultation closed on 30 November 2007.

This consultation paper is presented by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government. 

It discusses the overall recovery targets, overall recycling and material-specific recycling targets for packaging waste. It reviews the existing UK targets for 2008 to assess whether they will deliver the targets in the EC Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste that the UK has to meet by 31 December 2008.

The consultation also reviews the existing targets in place for 2009 and 2010 and proposes new targets up to 2012.

• Consultation letter
• List of consultees (amended 11 October 2007)
• Consultation document (PDF 200 KB)
• Partial Impact Assessment (PDF 200 KB)
• Statutory Intrument, Environmental ProtectionI: The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (PDF 200 KB)
• Summary of consultation responses (PDF 50 KB)

Further information

• Packaging & Packaging Waste

Page last modified: 13 March 2008
Page published: 11 October 2007

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