The production of milk, juice, butter, confectionery and other food products may rise in price due to the launch of a new concept of the so-called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) from 2022; it implies an increase in packaging recycling standards to 100%, as well as an indexation of the eco-collection rate for those enterprises. which do not undertake processing). This risk was warned by industry associations at a meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) Committee on Ecology on November 24 (Vedomosti got acquainted with the content of the final summary of the event).
In total, the cost of production of various types of products due to the launch of the new EPR concept will increase in the range from 1.8 to 25%, follows from the document. RSPP plans to send business calculations to the government apparatus and the presidential administration, a member of the environmental committee, executive director of the Industry for Ecology Association (RusPEK; it includes Coca-Cola, Danone, Procter & Gamble, etc.) .) Lyubov Melanevskaya.
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