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The Environment Agency has chosen Rangemaster’s Leamington Spa site as a real life business case study for the T75 Auditors course following two successful audits there. The course is designed to train Environment Agency Officers on how to effectively audit businesses against The Packaging Directive.
Packaging legislation is driven by the Packaging & Packaging Waste Directive (94/62/EC) - “The Packaging Directive” – which is concerned with minimising the creation of packaging waste material and promotes energy recovery, re-use and recycling of packaging. In the UK this is implemented through the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 and the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2003 (as amended). Responsibility for these is split between the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR).
A total of 21 Environment Agency Officers descended on the Leamington Spa factory. Stephen Beggan, Rangemaster’s Business Excellence Manager, and Ray White, Senior Project Engineer hosted the visit which included a presentation of the business, an overview of Rangemaster’s procedure for compliance with the Packaging Directive and a tour of the Packaging Hall. Commenting on the visit, Stephen Beggan said: “We are delighted to have been selected by the Environment Agency as a case study on the basis of our high standards of compliance in this area. We are constantly seeking to make improvements in all areas of business with the aim to achieve the highest standards possible.”
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