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UK food supplier fined over £7,0000

31 August 2010

Terbeke Pluma a food supplier in the UK have been ordered to pay fines reaching £7,532 after pleading guilty to failing to comply with the Packaging Waste Regulations in 2008.

The UK food supplier failed to join a packaging compliance scheme for 2008 and 2009, claiming that they had been registered previously but misunderstood the requirements believing that they would not need to register.

The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations, affects organisations that handle more than 50 tonnes of packaging a year and have a turnover that exceeds £2m.

Following an Environment Agency investigation at Terbeke it was found that that tonnage of packaging handled had been calculated incorrectly as being below the 50 tonne threshold when in fact it had handled more than 500 tonnes.