The EPR fee is a legislated levy charged by PROs to their producer members. This levy is intended to cover the costs of running the PRO as well as to fund the various mandated obligations contained in the NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: WASTE ACT 59 OF 2008 : EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY REGULATIONS, 2020.

The reason behind charging this levy is to provide producers/manufacturers and importers with a mechanism through which to take responsibility for E-waste that comes into being at the end of a product’s life.

The levy is charged on the volume, by weight,of the product in the year that it is put into the market.

This levy is charged at R1,50 (One Rand and Fifty Cents) per kilogram of product put on market per year.