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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-1997/schedule-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/648",
  "legislation_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/producer-responsibility-obligations-packaging-waste-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/10",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "UNITED KINGDOM'S RECOVERY AND RECYCLING TARGETS",
  "text": "The United Kingdom’s recovery and recycling targets are—\n(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\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev (E) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/3294",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev (W) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2003/3238",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev (S) (1.1.2004)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/613",
      "affecting_title": "The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/648/schedule/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:53.831601+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}