Why join our scheme?
Recycling Lives Services will take on your legal responsibilities and help you gather the information needed for compliance.
In addition to packaging compliance, we can offer a total waste management solution covering waste collections, electrical waste and batteries.
We are one of the newest compliance schemes, established in 2021, but you will be working with a well-respected team with nearly fifty years of experience and expertise within the packaging compliance and waste sectors.
And of course, we are unique in being associated closely with the Recycling Lives charity.
How can we help?
We take on your legal obligations under the packaging waste regulations and register you as a producer with the Environment Agency
We help you calculate your packaging obligations
Purchase the required (Packaging Recovery Notes) PRNs to meet these obligations and provide this evidence to the Environment Agency on your behalf
Carry out regular reviews to ensure data are as accurate as possible and advise of any improvements
Keep you up to date with changes in government policy, forthcoming amendments to the regulations and what these may mean for your business
Guide you through the new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) registration and data gathering process, providing regular regulatory updates and support.
Extended Producer Responsibilities (EPR)
These revised regulations are due to come into full effect from 2025 and will replace the existing regulations, which were last significantly revised in 2007. Reporting for EPR is now open, but with no fees associated to it in 2024 (based on 2023 data).
The key points of the new EPR scheme are as follows:
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“Our relationship with Recycling Lives spans more than 6 years starting with our first load in 2016.
We send scrap and waste material including copper, brass, ferrous metal and more they also handle our hazardous waste such as oil and aerosols. We honestly like everything about Recycling Lives, their people are dedicated to what they do, work hard and are exceptionally friendly to deal with. Their attitude to work and charity is inspirational. Long may our partnership continue.”
“BT and Recycling Lives have a long established relationship stretching back over 15 years.
We were looking to ensure we met and exceeded all of our environmental and waste targets and goals. To enable us to achieve this, we needed to work with the right partners that carry the same values and provide us with solutions we need in an ever change environment. Recycling Lives have continuously demonstrated their ability to deliver, always willing to go that extra mile when needed, and have built a trust within BT that our waste is in safe hands. We will continue to work with Recycling Lives in the future.”