Overview of the company
Repak is an industry funded organisation whose aim it is to facilitate and grow packaging recycling. Based on the principle of producer responsibility, Repak was established to help businesses meet their legal obligations to fund the recovery and recycling of the packaging on the goods or services they supply, as set out in the Waste Management (Packaging) Regulations 2007. What Repak have achieved - Through packaging levies, invested €146 million in supporting packaging recycling Ireland.
- Increased packaging recycling from 100,000 in 1998 to 643,000 tonnes in 2007
- Increased packaging recycling from under 15% in 1998 to close on 60% in 2007
- Repak established a 5 year strategy group for packaging recycling in 2001
- Repak helped Ireland meet and exceed it’s EU packaging recovery targets in 2001 (25%) and 2005 (50%)
- Repak support kerbside recycling reaching nearly 1,100,000 households, 2200 bring banks & 90 recycling centres, nationwide
- Repak’s fee structure encourages less packaging on the market
- 57% municipal recycling is driven by packaging recycling funded by Repak
- Co-funded and placed 866 new Bring Banks nationwide to grow the collection infrastructure
- Educating businesses & households with national campaigns and sponsorhips
- Repak Recycling week
- Repak Green Christmas
- An Taisce National Spring Clean
- An Taisce Green Schools Programme
- Tidy Towns
- Repak Easter Appeal
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