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Guidance

EPR for packaging: how local authority payments are calculated

Find out the methodology and procedure used to calculate payments to local authorities for Year 20251 (2025 to 2026.2026) and Year 2 (2026 to 2027).

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
20 December 2024
Last updated
75 AugustNovember 2025 — See all updates

Documents

Methodology and procedure for calculating 2025Year 1 (2025 to 20262026) payments

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Y fethodoleg a’r weithdrefn ar gyfer cyfrifo taliadau Cyfrifoldeb Estynedig Cynhyrchwyr dros becynwaith ar gyfer 2025 i 2026

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Methodology and procedure for calculating Year 2 (2026 to 2027) payments

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Y fethodoleg a’r weithdrefn ar gyfer cyfrifo taliadau 2026 i 2027

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Annex A: Summary of data inputs

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Annex B: Local authority groupings (updated 14 July 2025)

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Annex C: LAPCAP alignment of WRAP's bulk density figures with Defra's material categories

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Annex D: Summary of requirements for a standard model in the regulations

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Annex E: Sampled LA cost data - data collection

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Glossary of Terms

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Local authority payments and material base fees: breakdown of costs and tonnages

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Taliadau’r awdurdodau lleol a ffioedd sylfaenol y deunyddiau: dadansoddiad o gostau a thunelleddau

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Glossary of Terms

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Calculating LA payments: worked examples

PDF, 391 KB, 12 pages

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Enghreifftiau Ymarferol LAPCAP

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Local Authority payment values: England

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Local Authority payment values: Scotland

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Local Authority payment values: Wales

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Local authority payment values: Northern Ireland

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Cyfanswm Taliadau Awdurdodau Lleol

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Details

This guidance explains how payments to local authorities (LAs) under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging have been calculated for 2025 to 2026.for:

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  • Year guidance1 should(2025 beto read2026)
  • Year with2 the(2026 notice of assessment letter provided to LAs in June 2025.

    2027)

Updates to this page

Published 20 December 2024
Last updated 75 AugustNovember 2025 + show all updates

  2. Guidance document (and Welsh translated version) added to show local authority payments and material base fees: breakdown of costs and tonnages.

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Update history

2026-02-04 10:55
Worked examples updated from PDF to HTML in Welsh and English.

2026-01-29 13:58
Amended to represent changes for Wales in January 2026.

2025-11-05 10:31
The methodology and procedure for calculating Year 2 (2026 to 2027) payments has been added to this page.

2025-08-07 12:30
Guidance document (and Welsh translated version) added to show local authority payments and material base fees: breakdown of costs and tonnages.

2025-07-26 00:01
Adding anticipated payment values for local authorities

2025-07-14 15:58
Annex B updated to show correct local authority groupings.

2025-07-10 10:17
Guidance and annexes have been updated to show the methodology and data used to calculate local authority payments for 2025 to 2026.

2024-12-20 15:47
First published.