NEWS
MITIE LAUNCHES NEW
PACKAGING WASTE
COMPLIANCE SCHEME
ITIE, the strategic outsourcing and asset obligations. With membership packages
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management company, is expanding its designed around the individual needs of each
position in the waste industry through client, MITIEpack members can benefit from
the launch of a packaging waste compliance additional services such as in-house training,
scheme, MITIEpack. data collection, auditing, and waste
The Packaging Regulations apply to any minimisation guidance. Members will also have
company which handles more than 50 tonnes of access to a team of professionals who have
packaging in a year and has a turnover above been operating in the waste industry with
£2m. Obligated companies have targets to specific knowledge and experience of the
recycle a certain amount of packaging and must Packaging Regulations.
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’S NEW?
purchase Packaging Recycling Notes (PRNs) to Director of MITE’s Waste and environmental
cover this obligation. The Regulations provide team, Ian Baxter commented: “This addition to
additional funding into the recycling traditional compliance management has been
infrastructure and ensure the UK meets targets well received by our existing clients already as it
applied by a European Directive. Companies represents a fresh, new approach within the
who qualify under the Packaging Regulations industry. This new offering fits well within MITIE’s
must be registered with the Environment Agency portfolio of strategic outsourcing and asset
(EA) and provide evidence of PRN purchase. management services and will allow us to use
Many companies will outsource this PRN our expertise within the waste industry to support
purchase by joining a compliance scheme. the operations of our clients and their
MITIEpack is a compliance scheme that goes compliance needs.” www.mitiepack.co.uk
WHA
further than just managing members’ PRN Email: mitiepack@mitie.co.uk.
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