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Posted By Heather Aston
As many of you will be only too aware, the deadline for registration for 2005 under the charmingly named Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Wate) Regulations 1997 (as amended) is looming (7 April).
I have just about finished grappling with this year's calculations and am about to send it all off. I'd be interested to know from fellow posters:
1. How many of you also have the responsibility to do this for your company?
2. Are you registered directly with the EA/SEPA or with a scheme?
3. Do you think these regulations actually contribute anything at all towards improving recycling and recovery or are they simply a paperwork exercise that generates money for the Agencies and does everyone's head in completely? (including the Agency officers)
4. Can you eat a wine gum without chewing it and why is it always the green ones that are left at the end of the packet?
Happy Easter
Heather
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Posted By Stevie
Heather,
Don't know much about packaging Regs (thank god !!!) but if you open the wine gum packet at the other end you can eat the green one first !!!!
:)
Stevie
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Posted By Jonathan Breeze
Ha, ha, ha! I got rid of all that 3 years ago along with the Quality & Env aspects of my role.
And I received a pay rise when I changed jobs.
You have my sincerest sympathy Heather.
But in answer to the rest of your questions:
2) We used VALPAK.
3) Not a jot, you just go mad trying to collect the data, submit your return, pay your fee & then the company actually increases the quantities of packaging they use due to customer demand for smaller packages(Manual Handling Regs. doncha know!) And I've not even mentioned the reams of paper wasted trying to do the calculations - oh wait I just did!
4) Yes, but not the red or black ones and I just thought it was because the green ones tasted of a horrible synthetic pear flavour, so I avoid them (though that might be Midget Gems, now I think about it!)
Apologies to all forum members for subjecting you to a bit of a manic outburst there, I think I've recovered.
...Now where was the chill out thread again?
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Posted By CHRISTOPHER HAYWARD
1. Avoided it at last company but saddled with it from next year at current one.
2. Valpak
3. The cost of PRNs isn't actually high as % of operating costs, at last company or this one, so no real financial incentive to improve. I suppose the cost of PRNs will continue to rise though.
4. Wine gums. Now several points here:
a) Didn't Maynards change the formula so that they are softer? In the old days, on a cold day the gelatine was really brittle and even on a warmer day you had to chew pretty hard.
b) Why are the blackcurrant ones always so much softer? Does blackcurrant juice modify the rheology of gelatine?
c) What is the point of "Wine Gum Pastilles?" and "Sours"?
5. (a new point) You and I have wound up in the same industry and geographical location.
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Posted By Amanda Thorpe
Yes - am responsible for it where I work.
we too use Valpak
doesn't appear to make the blindest bit of difference to the way we pack stuff. We do try and persuade our customers to have their stuff with less packaging but that's from a commercial rather than a environmental stand.
wine gums? don't like em.
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