Restaurants, cafes, takeaways and chains are producers under both EPR and PPT - every cup, lid and clamshell now carries an obligation. Packlah rolls up your packaging across every site into one position, and models the recycled-content switches that cut the bill, before you place the order.
| Site | Cups/yr | EPR | PPT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soho | 340k | £520 | £226 |
| Shoreditch | 410k | £627 | £272 |
| Canary Wharf | 512k | £783 | £340 |
| Islington | 288k | £440 | £191 |
| + 10 more sites | £4,030 | £1,751 | |
Packaging is already a rising line on the P&L. EPR and PPT now sit on top. Run five sites or fifty and the liability is spread across all of them. Most operators don't have a consolidated number. Finance asks; nobody has a confident answer.
Plain-paper lid or plastic, virgin clamshell or 30%+ recycled - these aren't just procurement calls any more. The recycled-content threshold removes PPT on that line. The format affects your EPR modulation. The people buying your packaging weren't hired to think about this.
One site orders from two suppliers. Another uses a different tray. Head office runs a different cup programme from franchisees. Come submission time you're reconciling spreadsheets from multiple sources against a deadline. The work nobody planned for.
Add your locations, assign packaging SKUs to each, and Packlah rolls the whole estate into a single combined EPR and PPT view. Drill into any individual site, or look at the group position in one number. If a site adds a new packaging format mid-year, the group total updates immediately.
| Site | Total cost | % of group |
|---|---|---|
| Canary Wharf | £1,123 | 12.2% |
| Shoreditch | £899 | 9.8% |
| Soho | £746 | 8.1% |
| Islington | £631 | 6.9% |
Before you commit to a new cup format or switch suppliers, model the switch in Packlah. Enter the new material weight and recycled-content percentage, and see what it does to your PPT and EPR line - in pounds, not percentages. A switch to 30%+ recycled content on your main cup removes PPT on that line entirely. A real saving you can quantify before raising the PO.
| Option | PPT/yr | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Current (virgin lid) | £2,780 | - |
| 35% recycled lid | £0 | -£2,780 |
| Paper lid (no plastic) | £0 | -£2,780 |
EPR and PPT are calculated on what you've placed on the market, not what you've reported. Packlah keeps a running cost estimate throughout the year - per site and across the group - so your finance team isn't guessing when they're asked to accrue the number. No surprises at year-end.
| Quarter | Spend | EPR+PPT accrued |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | £41k | £2,295 |
| Q2 | £44k | £2,460 |
| Q3 (est) | £46k | £2,570 |
| Q4 (est) | £42k | £2,350 |
EPR producer obligations kick in at certain size thresholds. PPT has its own 10-tonne threshold. If you're growing - opening sites, doing more covers, adding seasonal menus - you want to know you're approaching a threshold before you cross it, not after your first submission.
| Month | Added | Rolling 12m |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 close | 1.8t | 6.4t |
| Q2 close | 2.0t | 7.1t |
| Q3 close | 2.2t | 7.9t |
A 14-site cafe group gets through roughly 4.2 million paper cups and plastic lids a year - about 300,000 per site. At current published EPR rates that's around £6,400 in EPR fees on the cup-and-lid combination alone. The plastic lids, made from virgin polymer, add a PPT exposure of roughly £2,800 at £223 per tonne. Switching the lid spec to one with 30%+ recycled content removes the PPT line entirely - a saving of around £2,800 a year - and can be modelled in Packlah before the procurement team places the next order.
All figures use current published placeholder rates. Packlah flags these clearly and updates them the moment DEFRA and HMRC confirm final numbers.