REPAK STATISTICAL TRAINING COURSE

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REPAK STATISTICALTRAINING COURSE

• Karen Mahon
• Membership Services

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• Irish Packaging Regulations came into force in
  1997 in response to the EU Packaging Directive
  94/62/EC
• Updated regulations came into effect on 1st March
  2003.
• Obliges all businesses with a turnover of
  greater than 1M AND placing 25 tonnes of
  packaging onto the Irish market to comply.
• Choice of joining Compliance Scheme-Repak or
  Self- Compliance

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Why are Statistical Submissions required?

• REPAK MUST
• ?Report to the DoELG and EPA who in turn report
  to European Commission
• YOUR Company MUST
• ?Submit Statistical Returns as condition of Repak
  Membership. 31stJanuary 31stJuly.

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Statistical Submissions Repak Fees

• YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
• System of Self-Certification
• Audit Trail KPMG.
• Correct Completion of Stats form
• Correct No. Statistical Submissions
• Supporting Documentation in place
• Accurate Reporting System in place
• Ensure all subsidiaries/ premises are captured

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Five Concepts

• Packaging (containment, transport, handling,
  protection, marketing or sale). Only report the
  packaging owned by your company.
• Re-use (guaranteed to lower Repak costs)
• Input Packaging (removal of packaging)
• Output Packaging (supply packaging to market)
• Shared Responsibility (5 stages in life-cycle
  of packaging)

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Packaging any material, container or
wrapping, used for or in connection with the
containment, transport, handling, protection,
promotion, marketing or sale of any product or
substance, including such packaging as may be
prescribed.
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Re-use Packaging
Non-Reusable Pkg Suitable for a Single trip
Reusable Packaging Suitable for Several
Trips Reuse

• Packaging must be conceived and designed for
  reuse
• Packaging must make minimum 2 trips or rotations
• Re-use loop must be documented

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Inputs and Outputs

• Input Packaging
• Is removed by you or on your behalf
• Reported in Section 1 of form
• Output Packaging
• Is applied/supplied and/or imported by you or on
  your behalf
• Reported in Section 2 of form

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Section 1 Inputs
1.1 Irish Sourced Input Packaging (Supplier is
RoI based) 1.2 Imported Input Packaging (Supplier
is based outside RoI) 1.3 Internal Packaging
Waste Management What happens to this waste?
How is it disposed of?
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Inputs Sections 1.1 1.3

• Your company receives packaged goods from an
  Irish Supplier.
• You must remove shrink wrap, outer cardboard
  boxes and pallets so that you can sell the goods
  onwards.
• In a reporting period, you remove 10 tonnes of
  shrink wrap, 25 tonnes of cardboard and 65 tonnes
  of wooden pallets.
• All of the cardboard and plastic ends up as waste
  on your floor. The cardboard and 8 tonnes of
  shrink wrap is recycled through the RPS scheme
  while 2 tonnes of plastic is sent for disposal.
• 60 tonnes of pallets are recycled through the
  RPS Scheme, while the remainder is sold to the
  local farmer for fence posts.

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Section 1 should look like this
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Input Packaging - Sections 1.1 1.2

• During a reporting period, you source your raw
  materials from
• both an Irish supplier and a Foreign supplier.
• Packaging removed from Irish goods
• (?Section 1.1 Irish Sourced Input Packaging)
• 3 tonnes paper, 5 tonnes plastic and 1 tonne
  wood.
• Packaging removed from Imported goods
• (?Section 1.2 Imported Input Packaging)
• 1 tonne paper, 0.5 tonnes plastic and 1 tonne
  wood.
• All paper is sent for recycling through the RPS
  Scheme
• 4 tonnes of the total plastic is sent for Non-RPS
  recycling and the remainder is sent for disposal
• 1.5 tonnes of wood is used again to supply
  product to customers (Onward Reuse), 0.5 tonnes
  sent for disposal.

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Input Packaging Sections 1.1, 1.2 1.3
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Notes on Reporting

• All data ALWAYS reported in Metric Tonnes
• Data to 3 decimal places nearest Kg
• Rented pallets not to be reported
• 2 Types of Reuse
• Onward Reuse Closed loop Reuse.

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Re-cap Section 1

• Packaging containment, transport, protection,
  handling, marketing and sale of a product.
• Re-use closed loop system
• Input Packaging removed by you (backdoor)
  Section 1 of form.
• Output Packaging supplied by you (front door),
  Section 2 of form.

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1 Packaging.
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2 Packaging.
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3 Packaging.
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Shared Responsibility
Life Cycle of Packaging

• Materials Manufacturer manufactures materials
  that are subsequently used to make packaging
• Converter makes packaging or imports empties
• Brandholder/Importer applies or imports
  packaging onto the market or owns the brand-name
• Distributor 1st person to transport the
  packaged goods in RoI
• Retailer report proportion of packaging that
  ends up as waste on your customers floor.

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2005 Repak Fee Structure
Materials Manufacturer 1.69 per
tonne Converter 1.69 per tonne Brandholder or
Brandholder/Importer Material Specific Paper
Glass Alum. Steel Plastic Wood P Comp M Comp
18.74 7.57 68.94 64.72 73.51 8.74
62.47 91.91 Distributor 1.69 per
tonne Retailer 3.38 per tonne
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Section 2 Output Packaging
Section 2.1 Irish Sourced Output
Packaging_Supplied in RoI Section 2.3 Imported
Output Packaging_Supplied in the RoI Sections
2.22.4 All Exports
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One Member Responsibility for more than one
stage.Section 2.1 Irish Sourced Output
Packaging-Supplied in RoI.
Level of Packaging
Activity
Responsibility
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One Member Responsibility for more than one
stage.Section 2.1 Irish Sourced Output
Packaging-Supplied in RoI Section 2.3 Imported
Output Packaging-Supplied in RoI.
Level of Packaging
Activity
Responsibility
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Becoming a Member
Training (Taking Place Today)
Submission (Within 6 weeks of Training)
Invoice Issued along with 2 Green Dot Licence
Agreements Rules
Payments Received along with 2 signed Licence
Agreements
Certificate of Membership Issued
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REPORTING

• Members
• Existing Members need to report twice per year.
• Jan June 2004 Statistics due 31st July 04
• July Dec 2004 Statistics due 31st January
  05.
• Transparency sheet available on our website
  www.repak.ie

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ASSISTANCE

• Repak Contacts
• Karen.mahon_at_repak.ie Membership/general
  queries
• Niamh.Mcmahon_at_repak.ie
• Liam.moloney_at_repak.ie
• Brenda.keogh_at_repak.ie
• Carmel.carroll_at_repak.ie Specific Stats queries
• Stats_at_repak.ie
• Kathleen.odonoghue_at_repak.ie
• Elizabeth.Barry_at_Repak.ie - Potential members
• Repak Web Site www.repak.ie