Recyclability assessment methodology: supplementary guidance
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Read additional information that clarifies the recyclability assessment methodology (RAM) if you're an obligated producer of household packaging waste under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Read additional information that clarifies the recyclability assessment methodology (RAM) if you're an obligated producer of household packaging waste under extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Reviewing your assessment
- Reporting obligated RAM packaging
- Online marketplace operators
- Drinks containers you must assess
- Medical packaging
- Distributors
- Automatic red or red-medical RAM ratings
- If you do not know the material composition of packaging or components
- Recyclability labelling
- Assessing packaging with 2 or more packaging components
- Assessing labels
- Reusable and refillable items
- Collection rates
- Limited Collection packaging examples
- Consumer takeback schemes
- Collection points - evidencing accessibility
Source and licence
PackUK
AttributionPackUK, ‘Recyclability assessment methodology: supplementary guidance’ (updated 20 April 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026