Jars packaging EPR United Kingdom: what a glass jar costs per 1,000 packs, 2025-26

What this page estimates for a glass jar in United Kingdom

The glass jar on this page is a jar closed by a metal lid with a plastic seal, with a paper label stuck on the glass. It has 3 components, each matched to the published rates of the 2025-26 schedule of PackUK extended producer responsibility for packaging (base fees) for United Kingdom; weight times rate gives a fee per 1,000 packs in GBP. The figures are estimates built on starting weights.

What is in a glass jar

The jar has three components: the glass body, the metal lid and the paper label. Each is matched to its own published rate.

Starting weights, an Instica estimate for a typical pack and not a measured weight: jar (glass, 190 g), lid (steel, 9 g), and label (paper, 2 g).

Jar

glass, 190 g (Instica starting estimate)

Lid

steel, 9 g (Instica starting estimate)

Label

paper, 2 g (Instica starting estimate)

Worked example: 1,000 glass jars in United Kingdom

One glass jar of the Medium (about 8 to 9 oz) size weighs 201 g in total. For each component the table gives its weight, the matched published rates, and the fee for 1,000 packs.

Added together, the estimate for 1,000 packs is £39.20 to £39.27.

Divide by 1,000 for a single pack: about £0.0392 to £0.0393.

What the fee tool returns for 1,000 glass jars in United Kingdom

Entered into the public fee tool for United Kingdom (2025-26 schedule, effective June 27, 2025), 1,000 glass jars give the figures below. The tool is the same engine that prices a report, so this page and the tool agree.

The tool total is £39.20 at the lowest matched rates and £39.26 at the highest.

Which published rates were matched in United Kingdom

4 published rates were matched to the pack in United Kingdom from the 2025-26 schedule. Each is quoted from the programme’s own fee table; the page does not change the rate or round it.

Jar, 190 g: one matched rate

Lid, 9 g: 2 matched rates

Label, 2 g: one matched rate

How size changes the fee for a glass jar

The weight of a glass jar depends on its size. The table prices each of the 4 sizes with the same matched rates, so the only thing that changes between rows is the weight.

Each component of the glass jar priced at every size, at the matched rates for United Kingdom.

What if the glass jar used another material?

Suppose the main component of the glass jar, weighing 190 g, were made of another material. The table prices the same weight in each material class that United Kingdom publishes a rate for, at the lowest published rate in that class.

A fee comparison only: another material changes weight and protection too.

What a larger run of glass jars costs in United Kingdom

Fees scale with the number of packs, because the schedule charges by mass. The table repeats the worked example for larger runs of the Medium (about 8 to 9 oz) glass jar in United Kingdom. Nothing else changes between rows: the same weights and the same matched rates apply.

Taken as a whole, the pack is priced at £0.195 to £0.1954 per kilogram of packaging, so a heavier pack costs more in proportion to its weight.

Flat fee bands, registration fees and minimum charges sit outside this per-kilogram table.

The fee schedule behind these figures for United Kingdom

The rates come from the 2025-26 schedule of PackUK extended producer responsibility for packaging (base fees) for United Kingdom, effective June 27, 2025. The facts below record where it was published and what else the schedule charges.

The schedule also lists 2 other fees, which are not part of the per-kilogram estimate on this page.

The schedule describes an eco-modulation of its rates, so the fee a producer pays can be adjusted up or down from the base rates shown here.

Ways to lower the fee on a glass jar

Glass is heavy, so glass weight dominates the total. A lighter jar for the same volume lowers the fee more than any change to the lid or label.

The metal lid and the paper label are small in mass, but they are priced as steel and paper, which can cost more or less per kilogram than glass.

Where a programme publishes a separate rate for coloured glass or for refillable glass, the colour and the reuse model of the jar can change the line it falls under.

Food and cosmetics sellers often change jar size by a few grams between suppliers, which is why the size table above shows each size on its own.