Packaging - extended producer responsibility: equality impact assessment

Footnotes

1. The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024

2. Equality Act 2010

3. SEPA Packaging waste

4. The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007

5. Obligated businesses are those who place more than 50 tonnes of packaging and have a turnover of more than £2 million per year.

6. Plastic bottles: Turning Back the Plastic Tide, paragraph 38.

7. Consultation on reforming the UK packaging producer responsibility system

8. Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging

9. Consultation on Reforms to the Packaging Waste Recycling Note (PRN) and Packaging Waste Export Recycling Note (PERN) System and Operator Approval

10. Reforming the UK packaging producer responsibility system: Partial Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA)

11. Note that the £1.2bn includes c. £100m for managing packaging disposed of in street bins. Along with the other UK governments, we intend to bring forward legislation to address this element of packaging EPR at a later date, to be in force by 2026.

12. Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, Summary of consultation responses and Government response, page 7.

13. Explore the National Outcomes

14. Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009

15. Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2009

16. Securing a green recovery on a path to net zero: climate change plan 2018-2032 - update

17. The 17 goals, United Nations

18. Making Things Last: a circular economy strategy for Scotland

19. Scotland's Zero Waste Plan

20. Safeguarding Scotland's resources: bueprint for a more resource-efficient and circular economy

21. Securing a green recovery on a path to net zero: climate change plan 2018-2032 - update.

22. Scotland's Circular Economy and Waste Route Map to 2030 Consultation

23. Plastic Packaging Tax: steps to take - guidance

24. EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018L0852">Directive (EU) 2018/852 of the European Parliament and the Council

25. Circular Economy Package policy statement

26. New EU rules to reduce, reuse and recycle packaging.

27. Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, Summary of consultation responses and Government response

28. Equality Act 2010

29. Consumer Behaviour Reports - Zero Waste Scotland

30. Scottish Household Survey 2022: Key Findings

31. Informal discussion with the Waste Managers Network Co-ordinator, February 2022

32. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot)

33. "Eating well: children and adults with learning disabilities, Nutritional and practical guidelines", the Caroline Walker Trust, 2007

34. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot)

35. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot)

36. Consumer Behaviour and Attitude Surveys, 2020, Zero Waste Scotland (unpublished)

37. Scottish Household Survey 2021 - telephone survey: key findings

38. Public Engagement with Climate Change in Scotland: 2022 - Final Report

39. Scottish Household Survey 2022: Key Findings

40. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot)

41. Household disposable income by age group 2022

42. Family Resources Survey

43. Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill: Consultation

44. Scottish Household Survey 2022: Key Findings

45. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot)

46. Equality for disabled people - Scope UK

47. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot)

48. Poverty in Scotland 2023 - Joseph Rowntree Foundation

49. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot)

50. Languages, Scotland's Census

51. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot)

52. Office for National Statistics - Household disposable income and energy expenditure by ethnicity, 2019-2021

53. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23 (data.gov.scot)