Repak is a not-for-profit voluntary member’s based packaging recycling scheme established under a voluntary agreement between industry and the Department of the Environment and Local Government. It was established as industry’s response to the obligations placed on Ireland by the EU directive on Packaging Waste (94/62/EC) and is the only government approved packaging compliance scheme under the Waste Management (Packaging) Regulations 1997. Repak succeeded in reaching and exceeding Ireland’s EU National Packaging Recovery and Recycling Target of 25% of packaging waste in 2001 and is well on the way to Achieving our 2005 EU packaging recovery target of 50%.