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Calculate, report and price your UK Extended Producer Responsibility fees and Plastic Packaging Tax liability in minutes - not weeks. Two regimes, one SKU catalogue. Built for packaging distributors and food brand owners.
| SKU | Materials | EPR fee | PPT |
|---|---|---|---|
| EL-1247 | £516 | £139 | |
| EL-2103 | £534 | Exempt | |
| EL-2204 | £312 | £0 | |
| EL-3018 | £864 | £0 | |
| EL-3110 | £580 | £254 |
UK packaging compliance now means two separate regimes - EPR with PackUK / DEFRA, and PPT with HMRC. Different cadences, different rates, different submission portals, same underlying packaging data. Most distributors are running two spreadsheets and reconciling them by hand.
DEFRA base fees, PPT rates, modulation, producer thresholds, 30% recycled rules. Your spreadsheet went stale the day you built it - and you don't have time to rebuild it for either regime, let alone both.
Material breakdown, recyclability, recycled content, tonnage, plastic weight, recycled plastic %. Multiply by 200 SKUs. Add two regulators and four PPT quarters per year. Nobody has time for that.
EPR can add 2 to 6 percent to your cost of goods. PPT adds another £223/t on top of unrecycled plastic. Without per-SKU pricing recommendations you absorb both or lose the customer with a clumsy uplift.
EPR fees, PPT liability, customer pricing - all calculated from the same product data, updated as DEFRA and HMRC publish changes.
Sync your product list automatically from your accounting, ERP, POS or ecommerce system - or load it manually as a backup. Map each item's material breakdown, recyclability, and recycled content once. We'll keep the fees current.
| Material | % by weight | Recycled | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibre-based composite | 88% | 30% | £412 |
| Plastic - PLA lining | 12% | 0% | £122 |
| Total per tonne | £534 | ||
We watch the DEFRA pEPR rate schedule so you don't have to. When base fees or modulation factors change, every SKU recalculates - and you get an alert with the delta.
| Material | Rate £/t | Δ vs Q4 |
|---|---|---|
| Paper / board | 215 | +£8 |
| Plastic | 485 | +£12 |
| Glass | 240 | - |
| Steel | 305 | -£5 |
| Aluminium | 395 | +£10 |
| Fibre composite | 455 | +£18 |
Get a per-SKU uplift recommendation that covers your EPR cost without scaring the customer. Export a clean rate sheet you can send to each account - no spreadsheet maths required.
| SKU | Current | EPR uplift | New |
|---|---|---|---|
| EL-1247 | £0.42 | +£0.008 | £0.428 |
| EL-2103 | £0.31 | +£0.013 | £0.323 |
| EL-2204 | £0.18 | +£0.004 | £0.184 |
| EL-3018 | £0.58 | +£0.008 | £0.588 |
| Avg increase | +2.4% | ||
The data each side needs already exists - it's just in the other business's system. Brand owners chase suppliers for spec sheets twice a year; suppliers rebuild the same spreadsheet for every customer who asks. Packlah moves it properly: request packaging data from any supplier, or share a verified data pack with any customer - matched into the receiving catalogue SKU by SKU.
| Their SKU | Your SKU | Match |
|---|---|---|
| EL-1247 | CUP-12DW | Exact |
| EL-2103 | CLAM-750 | 95% |
| EL-2204 | TRAY-SM | Review |
| EL-3110 | - | New item |
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Import a CSV from your ERP or paste your product list in. Most customers are loaded in under 10 minutes. We map the columns for you.
For each SKU, set the material breakdown by weight and recycled content. Packlah auto-suggests from the product description when it can.
See your total EPR liability, per-SKU fees, and a recommended customer uplift. Export to PDF or CSV and send.
“We were spending two days a quarter rebuilding the EPR spreadsheet. Packlah recalculated 380 SKUs in under a minute when the Q1 rates dropped.”
“The per-customer rate sheet was the killer feature. We sent 18 customer rate updates last quarter in a single afternoon.”
“Honestly we hadn't priced EPR into anything. Packlah showed us we were losing 3.4% margin on our top line - we'd have run out of cash by Christmas.”
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