UK
The UK methodology that grades packaging red, amber or green and adjusts pEPR fees according to the grade.
RAM assesses each packaging component against criteria for collection, sortation and reprocessing in the UK, then assigns a red, amber or green grade. The grade modulates the pEPR fee, so a red-graded component costs materially more per tonne than a green one.
Assessment is component level and UK specific. A component that grades green in a continental scheme can grade amber or red in RAM because UK collection and sorting infrastructure differs.
Because grades are reassessed as infrastructure changes, a green grade is not permanent. Companies should re-run assessments each reporting cycle rather than treating the grade as a static attribute.
The UK's extended producer responsibility scheme, charging producers modulated per-tonne fees for household packaging waste.
Whether packaging is actually collected, sorted and reprocessed into new material at scale, not merely whether it is theoretically recyclable.
Adjusting EPR fees up or down according to the environmental performance of the packaging, rewarding recyclable design and penalising problem formats.
Packgine resolves your packaging to component level and applies the rules of every market you sell into.