Schedule 10 UNITED KINGDOM'S RECOVERY AND RECYCLING TARGETS

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch 10 rev (E) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 2003 regs 3, 21
Sch 10 rev (W) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) 2003 reg 3, Schedule, para 18
Sch 10 rev (S) (1.1.2004) by Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment 2003 regs 3, 21

The United Kingdom’s recovery and recycling targets are—

(a)

no later than the year 2001 between 50 per cent as a minimum and 65 per cent as a maximum by weight of the packaging waste is to be recovered; and

(b)

within this general target and with the same time limit between 25 per cent as a minimum and 45 per cent as a maximum by weight of the totality of packaging materials contained in packaging waste are to be recycled with a minimum of 15 per cent by weight for each packaging material.