Regulation 40 Recycling obligations

Subject to regulation 42(2)(b) and to paragraph 5(1)(a) of Schedule 9, a large producer must comply with the recycling obligations set out in Schedule 5.

A large producer may only demonstrate compliance with its recycling obligations through the acquisition of PRNs or PERNs or both.

Subject to paragraph (4), a PRN or PERN that is issued in respect of packaging waste received for recycling at a reprocessing site or an overseas reprocessing site may only be used to demonstrate compliance with a large producer’s recycling obligations for the year in which the packaging waste is received for recycling at that site.

A PRN that is issued in respect of packaging waste received for recycling at a reprocessing site, or a PERN that is issued in respect of packaging waste received for recycling at an overseas reprocessing site, in the December of a year may be relied on by a large producer to demonstrate compliance with its recycling obligations either in that year or in the following year.