PackUK — household packaging in the United Kingdom
PackUK publishes 24 rate rows for household packaging in the United Kingdom for 2026; its base rate for Glass is £205/tonne. Last verified 2026-09-16
What this scheme is
PackUK — Scheme administrator for the four-nation UK packaging EPR scheme (pEPR), under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024.
Declaration basis: GBP per tonne of household packaging placed on the market. Official site: gov.uk ↗. Official rates page: gov.uk ↗.
What it covers, and where the rows are on this site
| Stream | Year | Rows | Full schedule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household packaging | 2025 | 8 | /united-kingdom/2025/ |
| Household packaging | 2026 | 24 | /united-kingdom/2026/ |
Only years with a page on this site are listed. A year this library holds but does not publish free of charge is not shown here and no figure from it appears on this page.
Representative rates
One row per material category — the same rows the cross-country comparison table uses. The complete schedule, with every category, band, bonus and malus, stays on the country rate page linked above each block.
| Material category | Official code | Rate as published | Source | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glass Glass | £205/tonne | gov.uk ↗ official | 2026-09-16 | |
| Paper and cardboard Paper and board | £210/tonne | gov.uk ↗ official | 2026-09-16 | |
| Beverage cartons Fibre-based composite | £525/tonne | gov.uk ↗ official | 2026-09-16 | |
| Steel Steel | £290/tonne | gov.uk ↗ official | 2026-09-16 | |
| Aluminium Aluminium | £270/tonne | gov.uk ↗ official | 2026-09-16 | |
| Rigid plastic Plastic | £455/tonne | gov.uk ↗ official | 2026-09-16 | |
| Wood Wood | £450/tonne | gov.uk ↗ official | 2026-09-16 | |
| Other materials Other | £225/tonne | gov.uk ↗ official | 2026-09-16 |
What it costs before the first kilogram
This scheme is the one the rule library names for this country:
Registering with the authority costs £1,216 a year — that is the official fee for the register itself, and it is separate from anything a scheme charges. The same page gives a second figure for the same fee: £631 a year if you register through a compliance scheme. For PackUK — the source this site holds the United Kingdom rates from — we found no published minimum annual or membership fee at a page we could read logged out on 2026-09-04. Not obtained means we did not find one, not that there is none. A third fixed cost is an authorised representative, where one is required. For the United Kingdom this library records: Settled — no representative regime here; the representative question above has the detail. The price of a representative is commercial, quoted per provider, and no official source publishes it, so this library holds no figure for it. None of the above is the per-kilogram fee: that one is on the rate page and in the calculator.
- Registration fee: gov.uk ↗, read 2026-09-04 · authority's wording, restated
- Scheme minimum: read 2026-09-04 · no source we could read
Where to go next
Provenance
Sources behind the rate rows
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/year-2-illustrative-waste-disposal-fees-extended-producer-responsibility-for-packaging/year-2-illustrative-waste-disposal-fees-extended-producer-responsibility-for-packaging
read 2026-09-16 · official · sha256 1297ad9d0b64
This scheme's own pages — Addresses as recorded in this library's scheme entry. The read date behind every figure on this page is on the source that figure came from.
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/packuk
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/extended-producer-responsibility-for-packaging-2025-base-fees/extended-producer-responsibility-for-packaging-2025-base-fees
How to cite
EPR Rates (2026). PackUK — household packaging in the United Kingdom. https://eprrates.com/schemes/packuk/ · Retrieved 2026-09-17. CC BY 4.0.
@misc{eprratesschemespackuk,
title = {PackUK — household packaging in the United Kingdom},
author = {{EPR Rates}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprrates.com/schemes/packuk/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-09-17. CC BY 4.0}
}
Rate figures are extracted from the official publications listed under Sources; those source documents remain under their publishers' terms.