Northern Ireland's Packaging Compliance Scheme

NIPAK is Northern Ireland's only local packaging compliance scheme.

It helps obligated businesses meet their requirements under the Packaging Regulations in a practical and cost effective manner. It probably offers the best value route to (and staying in) compliance for businesses.

Incoming Battery Regulations

Every member state has to ensure that their battery regulations are in force by the 26th September 2008.

The average UK household uses 21 batteries (i.e. AA, AAA, button battery) per year with 89% of batteries for general purpose and can be located in every room in the house. Approximately 600 million (22, 000 tonnes) household batteries are being sent unnecessarily to landfill or incineration. The batteries that are sent to landfill or incineration comprise up to 16 different battery chemistries which consists of both hazardous and non-hazardous materials.

In the UK, government organisations such as WRAP (Waste Resource Action Programme), BERR (Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) and DEFRA (Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) have conducted studies to determine what is happening to both household portable batteries/accumulators and automotive/industrial batteries in the market at present.

It is likely that we will have compliance schemes and so on - like the packaging and WEEE regimes.

The Green Dot

NIPAK members now can use The Green Dot legally - please contact us for more information