According to sector insiders, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is evaluating potential mitigation strategies in response to historically high Packaging Recovery Note (PRN) prices in the UK market. PRNs are tradable certificates that demonstrate compliance with UK packaging producer responsibility obligations under the Environmental Protection Act. The record-high pricing has created cost pressures on producers and obligated businesses across the supply chain. Although the government has not yet publicly announced which specific measures it may implement—or whether it will take action at all—the reported consideration of intervention options has been positively received by multiple segments of the waste and recycling industry. This development suggests ongoing policy attention to the functioning of the UK's packaging EPR compliance mechanism.