EPR is coming: register now to save the environment and avoid Amazon account suspension

Everybody should be talking about this: EPR, a new environmental tax with the power to do a lot of good for the planet.

But it could also catch out unwary sellers on Amazon and lead to account suspension.

Here’s what it is, and what you need to do to comply.

What is EPR?

It stands for Extended Producer Responsibility, and it’s legislation designed to protect the environment.

Effectively it places responsibility for a product, for all of its life cycle, with the producer. That includes disposal: under the latest EPR rules, waste disposal costs are shifting from taxpayers to producers.

You are considered a producer if you:

• Manufacture a product subject to EPR requirements in the relevant countries
• Import a product subject to EPR requirements in the relevant countries
• Sell a product subject to EPR requirements in the relevant countries.

EPR also creates incentives to make products, and packaging in particular, more recyclable and reusable.

How does it work?