Notpla
UK pEPR · 2026/27 illustrative fees

What would switching to Notpla
save you in EPR fees?

Under the UK's packaging EPR scheme, fees are now eco-modulated. Red-rated packaging pays a premium that PackUK has confirmed will rise from 20% today to 100% by 2028/29, while green-rated packaging gets a discount. Enter your current packaging and the Notpla equivalent to see the difference.

Start from
Plastic coating
How many packs you place on the UK market each year

Today

Your current packaging
Fee rate–
Packaging per year–
EPR fees per year–

With Notpla

Notpla equivalent
Notpla-coated board box
Fee rate–
Packaging per year–
EPR fees per year–
Switching to Notpla saves you
£0
And it gets worse every year
Total saved across the three years –
Fibre-based composite · the ranking
Plastic-coated fibre is the most expensive material in the scheme
Not one of the most expensive. The most. At every rating, a paper board carrying a plastic layer costs more per tonne than any other category, including pure plastic. Red fee per tonne, all eight categories:
RAM 2027 · the ceiling
Bagasse can never go green
This is a rating problem before it is a fee problem. RAM 2027 lists bagasse (sugarcane fibre moulded packaging) under "Other materials", and that category has no green rating at all. Red is the default, amber needs take-back scheme evidence. No reformulation reaches green, because the rating comes from the material itself, so any customer holding a green packaging commitment is locked out of it permanently.
Moulded bagasse clamshell
Bagasse · other materials
Ratings available
Red Amberwith take-back evidence Greennot available
Notpla-coated board box
Notpla · paper and board
Ratings available
Red Amber Greenreachable
How this is calculated

Annual EPR fee = (weight per unit × units per year) × fee per tonne for the material at its RAM rating. Rates below are PackUK's Year 2 (2026/27) illustrative modulated household waste disposal fees, published December 2025. Red is set at 1.2× the base (amber) fee; green receives a discount of roughly 9% from the base fee.

MaterialGreen £/tAmber £/tRed £/t

Illustrative fees only. PackUK's confirmed 2026/27 fees were expected in June 2026 and had not been published when this was last updated, so treat every figure as indicative. Covers household packaging waste disposal fees for obligated producers (annual turnover of £2m or more and 50 tonnes or more of packaging handled). Excludes registration fees, scheme administrator costs and PRN obligations, so total savings are typically higher. A typical PLA-coated board pack is classed as fibre-based composite. Notpla-coated board is designed to remain in the paper and board stream. Confirm your own pack's RAM rating with your compliance scheme.

On bagasse: RAM 2027 lists bagasse (sugarcane fibre moulded packaging) under "other materials", which is rated red by default, amber only where take-back scheme evidence is met, and never green. The pEPR fee schedule's "other" row covers the same material list, so the two are treated here as the same category. The "assumption" column is a comparison baseline showing what the same pack would cost in the paper and board stream, not a claim about how any individual pack was previously rated. Bagasse packaging that also exceeds the PFAS limits is caught by the automatic red criteria as well.

Sources: GOV.UK, Year 2 illustrative waste disposal fees and GOV.UK, RAM 2027 materials assessment guidance.