Who are Repak Members?
Our members are businesses, large and small, who pay fees to fund the recycling of the packaging they place on the Irish market. We have two categories of members: Regular and Scheduled.
Regular Members
These are large companies, such as manufacturers, importers, brandholders, distributors and large retailers, who pay annual fees aligned to the volume of packaging they place on the Irish market.
Scheduled Members
These are small to medium sized business, such as retailers, hotels, pharmacies, pubs and restaurants, who pay a fixed annual fee to fund recycling in Ireland.
How are Repak Members’ fees spent?
Repak Members paid €30m in fees in 2019 to directly fund household recycling bins, bottle banks, recycling centres and commercial waste packaging nationwide. For every €1 of members fees received, 79c is spent on recycling (57c on household recycling and 22c on commercial recycling), 3c on Recovery (Energy from packaging waste), 4c on Education & Communication and 14c on Repak overheads.
Learn moreWhat Repak initiatives do our Members support?
Repak Members play their part in reducing packaging waste and improve recycling behaviour in Ireland. Our Members participate in a range of Repak initiatives designed to improve the sustainability of packaging in Ireland and protecting the environment.
Prevent & Save Programme
Since we launched Prevent & Save in 2006, we have helped our members collectively prevent over 857,000 tonnes of packaging being placed on the Irish market. The programme offers free packaging optimisation and design advice to Repak Members, helping them to reduce packaging and maximise recycling.
Learn moreRepak Members’ Plastic Pledge
Since we launched the Plastic Pledge in 2018, over 115 of Ireland’s largest Repak Members have signed up, pledging to five specific objectives aimed at reducing plastic packaging and making packaging more recyclable, while minimising food waste (where relevant to their business).
Learn moreTeam Green
Repak Members also support our Team Green initiative, which is our rally call to Ireland to reduce, reuse and recycle, with a special focus on helping Ireland achieve ambitious EU plastic recycling targets by 2025 and 2050.
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Pakman Awards 2019
See the great lengths that some of our amazing Members are going to in order to improve their sustainability and contribution to the environment.
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Coca Cola Wins Plastic Pledge Member of the Year Award 2019
Coca Cola won the inaugural ‘Repak Plastic Pledge Member of the Year’ category at the Pakman Awards 2019, topping the category by demonstrating its outstanding commitment to the Plastic Pledge objectives, including becoming the first water brand in Ireland to introduce bottles produced from 100% recycled plastic.
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Hotel Doolin Wins Waste Prevention Award
Hotel Doolin was selected by the Pakman Awards judging panel for making a conscious effort to prevent waste from the almost 300,000 meals served to its guests in the past twelve months. The boutique hotel has also implemented several sustainability practices that were recognised by the judges as being best in class, including banning the use of single use plastics and using sustainable materials where possible in all rooms.
Learn moreLatest News
All NewsOur new Packaging Design Guide provides Members with valuable information on the various stages involved in packaging recycling, and how the design of packaging impacts on those stages, potentially rendering materials non-recyclable.
Repak launched the ‘colour in for a chance to win’ competition in April which invited children to download and colour in posters from its Team Green for Schools primary school recycling resources and add their top recycling tip. The competition also encouraged children who did not have printers at home to get creative and recreate the Repak posters. Entries were submitted to Repak’s Facebook and Instagram accounts over the course of the two-week social media campaign.
Coca Cola won the inaugural ‘Repak Plastic Pledge Member of the Year’ category at the Pakman Awards, which took place in Dublin last night. The new category was open to any of over 90 Repak members who have signed the Plastic Pledge, committing to achieve specific objectives relating to reducing plastic packaging and increasing the recyclability of packaging.
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