Repak

Repak is a not for profit established in 1997. Repak was created by Ireland's recycling industry to help companies meet their legal obligation with packaging legislation. Repak's members, over 3,300, are producers of packaging and the threshold is any company who places more than 10 tonnes of packaging onto the Irish market with a turnover of €1 mi... llion in the calendar year. In two decades, over €425m has invested through Repak by its members to fund the recycling and recovery of packaging waste. Repak fees are based on a pay-as-you-produce basis i.e. the more packaging placed on the market by a producer, the higher their fee. The fees paid to Repak by its members are used to subsidise the collection and recovery of waste packaging through registered recovery operators (the people who come and collect your rubbish for sorting and separation) across Ireland, so that the individual member companies are exempt from this requirement. Repak is approved under licence by the Government to operate as a compliance scheme for packaging recycling. Since Repak was set up in 1997 packaging recycling and recovery in Ireland has grown from a very low base, under 15% to an estimated 93% in 2018. Ireland is now one of the leading recycling countries in the EU for packaging recycling. Repak has recycling targets set out by the Department for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment and the EU and has achieved and surpassed this year on year since its establishment.Read More