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OPRL’s Call-To-Action messages on recycling labels encourage more recycling
Adding simple consumer instructions to recycling labels will allow a wider range of materials to be collected and recycled, which should, in turn, result in higher recycling rates.
Celebrate Recycle Week 2024 with OPRL: Rescue Your Packaging Heroes!
It’s Recycle Week 2024 and all of us at OPRL are excited to join Recycle Now to raise awareness about the importance of keeping our packaging out of the rubbish bin.
Important Defra update on mandatory recycling labelling
Defra delays mandatory recycling labelling under pEPR.. Learn what this means and why clear packaging labels remain essential.
Celebrating Alice Harlock’s Recognition in the Environment 100!
The Environment 100 honours those making an outstanding contribution to environmental sustainability, whether through ground-breaking innovations, impactful initiatives, or simply being an unstoppable force for change. Alice has certainly earned her place on this list!
Show them what you’re made of: Navigating the challenges and opportunities of Extended Packaging Responsibility for Packaging Manufacturers
Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR) is coming – bringing with it a necessity for producers to understand the recyclability of everything that comes off the production line. pEPR assigns producers the responsibility for the entire lifecycle of their packaging…
OPRL’s online recycling label tool updated to boost efficiency
We’re proud to announce that Margaret Bates, Managing Director at OPRL, will be serving as Defra’s new Head of Scheme Administrator to establish the new pEPR scheme.The new UK pEPR scheme will move the cost of dealing with packaging waste away from the taxpayer and onto packaging producers, who will pay for the full cost of managing packaging waste from households.
Unpacking Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR)
We explain the mandatory recycling labelling requirements element of pEPR and give you the technical tools to create pEPR compliant recycling labels.
Get Social with OPRL
At OPRL we love to interact with our members and other likeminded people and one of the best ways to do this is via our social channels. It means that we can let you know all the latest information as soon as we get it.
Jude Allan joins OPRL as interim Managing Director
Jude has joined the team to cover Margaret Bates’ secondment to Defra. Margaret will spend up to two years seconded as Head for the UK Extended Producer Responsibility (pEPR) for Packaging Scheme Administrator.