The Trust is joining forces with the Gloucestershire-based compliance scheme Budget Pack to establish Compliance Wales, which will sell itself on guaranteed fixed-price packaging waste recovery notes (PRNs).
 Stephen Clark of Budget Pack (left) with Dr Keith Parry of the Wales Environment Trust are behind the new Compliance Wales |
Dr Keith Parry, CEO of the Trust, said of the partnership with Budget Pack: “We share many common goals in our efforts to support the many local authorities and businesses dealing with recycling and recovery in Wales.”
The scheme will sign up members with packaging producer responsibility obligations, and will also sign up reprocessors and waste producers to “guarantee” a flow of packaging waste materials. Compliance Wales is intending to establish contracts of three to four years in length between all parties.
“Easy Jet”
Budget Pack, which is part of the Worktwice Environmental group, has been in operation since April 2003. The self-proclaimed “Easy Jet” of packaging compliance had 30 obligated members in the 2004.
Stephen Clark, managing director at Budget Pack, said: “Compliance Wales is the culmination of many years of development in our efforts to bring together the waste producer, reprocessor and obligated company in a way that reduces inefficiencies and internal costs for all involved whilst maximising stability and security within an increasingly volatile market.”
Under UK packaging waste regulations, packaging producer companies that handle more than 50 tonnes of packaging a year or have an annual turnover of more than 2 million a year have to register with the Environment Agency or a compliance scheme.
Producers must then pay for their obligation of packaging waste recovery targets by purchasing sufficient PRNs from reprocessors (see legislation section).
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