Amendment of Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007

2.—(1) Schedule 2 to the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 (recovery and recycling obligations)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph 5, substitute—

“5.   The following is prescribed as the recovery target “X”—

(a) for the year 2018, 80%;

(b) for the year 2019, 81%;

(c) for the year 2020, 82%.”.

(3) In paragraph 6, for Table 2 substitute—

“Table 2

Recycling targets

Materials	2018	2019	2020
Glass	78	79	80
Plastic	53	55	57
Aluminium	58	61	64
Steel	79	82	85
Paper/Board	71	73	75
Wood	38	43	48”.

(4) For paragraph 8 substitute—

“8.   The recycling allocation “B” is 30 for each of the years 2018 to 2020.”.

(1)

S.I. 2007/871, amended by S.I. 2012/3082, 2016/1146; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.