How we recover your packaging
Our EPR fees
Identified products for which we administer EPR schemes
Fees for the identified products for which Petco administers schemes:
Identified products | DFFE category of identified products | 2026 EPR fee (total cost/tonne) |
|---|---|---|
PET beverage bottles | PET beverage bottles | R773 |
PET bottles – home and personal care | Single use products – PET | R773 |
PET bottles – edible oil | Plastic PET oil bottles | R773 |
PET bottles and jars – food | Single use products – PET | R773 |
Thermoform PET | Plastic PET thermoformed | R837 |
PET shrink sleeves | PET flexibles | R1231 |
PET strapping (closed loop) | PET flexibles | R392 |
BOPP labels | Polyolefin flexibles | R838 |
HDPE and PP closures | Polyolefin rigids | R838 |
Liquid board packaging | Liquid board packaging | R850 |
According to Section 18 of the National Environmental Management: Waste Act (NEMWA), the Extended Producer Responsibility fee must be based on nett cost recovery.
This includes a differentiated rate per category of product or class of product, and depends on the following:
- Weight of product
- Ease of recyclability
- Current demand for the material for recycling purposes
- Costs of establishing a collection system for the identified product
- Collection, transport, storage and treatment costs for separately collected waste
- Administrative costs
- Costs for public communication (raising awareness of waste prevention, litter reduction, separate collection, and other important issues)
- Costs for the appropriate surveillance of the system (including auditing)
- And the deduction of revenues generated from recycled material sales.
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