| Title: | Consultation on recycling targets for packaging for 2008 and thereafter |
| Organisation: | Defra |
| Issued: | Thu 11 October 2007 |
| Deadline: | 30 November 2007 |
| Status: | CLOSED Consultation is closed for comments |
| Synopsis: | The consultation paper 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 IEMA are not looking to make a response to this consultation, but we have signposted it on our website as it might be of interest to some of our Members.
Note the short consultation period. Defra have identified that the reason for this is to give producers and compliance schemes sufficient time to plan because the compliance year will start on 1 Jan 2008. If any of our Members do wish to make a response, please do so on your own behalf by following the instructions on Defra's website below:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/packaging-reg07/index.htm