General Information
Repak is a compliance scheme set up under the Waste Packaging Regulations which undertakes a producer's responsibility on their behalf.
The core functions of Repak are:
To raise and disburse funds from industry and other sources;
To agree strategies with industry, government, and local authorities for meeting targets for recovery and recycling;
To plan and implement these strategies;
To monitor, measure, and control achievements of targets by the collection of statistics from its Members;
and
To target packaging waste arising in the industrial, commercial and domestic sectors.
Repak assumes responsibility on behalf of its Members for the recovery and recycling of packaging waste up to the percentage of its Members' obligations and up to a maximum of the Government agreed target of 27%. The initial plan was that Repak would fund the recovery and recycling of household packaging waste (20%) through existing recovery schemes, while Members would recover the commercial and industrial packaging waste (80%) from their own premises.
