The EPR floor price is coming. Your certificate revenue model probably assumes the wrong number.
A floor under e-waste EPR certificates changes recycler economics in ways that reward capacity commitments made before notification, not after.
Every registered e-waste recycler currently models certificate revenue as a spot number. A floor price mechanism, once notified, makes that model wrong in a specific and expensive way: it converts a volatile spot revenue line into a two-tier market where contracted volume prices above the floor and uncontracted volume prices at it.
That distinction is the whole story, and most operators are planning as if the floor is simply a higher spot price.
What the draft actually proposes
The mechanism under comment sets a minimum realisable value for certificates transferred from registered recyclers to producers meeting their extended producer responsibility obligations. It does not set a ceiling, and it does not mandate a clearing venue.
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