Estimate how much packaging your business handles, see whether you're over the UK's packaging EPR thresholds, and find out whether you're likely to cross them next year.
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Use the annual turnover from your most recent accounts. If you're part of a group of companies, the rules look at the whole group.
Count the packaging your business is responsible for over a calendar year. That includes boxes, mailers, bottles, wrap and pallets. Pick whichever way of working it out suits you.
Weigh one typical packed order without the product: the box or mailer, filler, tape and any inner packaging.
Your packaging supplier can usually tell you the weight of each item. Units means how many you use in a year.
How do you expect your packaging use to change next year?
Plastic Packaging Tax is separate from EPR. It applies to businesses that manufacture plastic packaging in the UK or import it, including plastic packaging around imported goods. Plastic packaging you buy from a UK supplier doesn't count.
You need both to be a producer. Packaging EPR applies if your turnover is £1 million or more and you handled more than 25 tonnes of packaging in the previous calendar year. Below either line, you have no EPR obligations.
Small and large producers. You're a large producer if your turnover is £2 million or more and you handled more than 50 tonnes. Otherwise, if you're over both of the lower lines, you're a small producer.
Who counts as the producer depends on your role. Brand owners, packers and fillers, importers, sellers, distributors and online marketplaces can all be responsible in different situations. If you're not sure which applies to you, check the official guidance.
Official guidance: EPR for packaging: who is affected and what to do and register for Plastic Packaging Tax on GOV.UK.