Supply chain

Supply chain

There are several pieces of regulation and legislation that impact all companies that work with materials and within supply chains. These include a UK piece of legislation called the Environment Act 2021, and a global policy approach called Extended Producer Responsibility:

• The Environment Act 2021 is a policy that transposes five internationally recognised environmental principles into UK legislation. In short, it forces all companies to integrate environmental considerations into the core of their decision-making and operational processes or risk legal complications.

• Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a global policy approach in which a producer’s responsibility for a product is extended to the post-consumer stage of a product’s life cycle. It seeks to incentivise producers to take into account environmental considerations when designing their products.