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EPR essentials · 10 min
Two of the Netherlands' three EPR registrations run through producer organisations and only batteries go to a state register. Below are the six steps to register with Verpact, Stichting OPEN and Rijkswaterstaat in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
ISO standards · 8 min
An eco-efficiency assessment pairs a life cycle assessment of a product with a second assessment of the value that product delivers, and ISO 14045 sets the rules for both. Below is what its 2012 edition requires, how the two halves are related, and why the EU's eco-modulated packaging fees follow the same logic.
EPR statistics & facts · 8 min
No country in the European Union throws out more than Germany does. Below is our estimate for 2026, the last year anyone actually measured, the sectors that produce the waste, the share that is packaging, and how its recycling rates stand against the 2030 targets.
EPR essentials · 10 min
The UK runs its own EPR rules outside the EU, with three registrations for packaging, electronics and batteries and no authorised representative for two of them. Below are the six steps to get registered through Report packaging data, the WEEE service and NPWD in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
ISO standards · 9 min
Chemical recovery breaks used plastic packaging down into the chemicals it was made from, and ISO/TR 16218 is the 2013 technical report that describes those routes. Below is what the report covers, how it sits next to ISO 18604 and ISO/TR 17098, and whether the output counts as recycling under EU packaging law.
EPR statistics & facts · 9 min
Two very different numbers sit behind Pepsi's waste footprint, one from the factory floor and one from the supermarket shelf. Added together they reach roughly 5 million metric tonnes in 2026.
EPR software · 14 min
Greece gives every producer one registration number and then asks for a separate declaration behind it for each scheme the catalogue touches. Below are six providers ranked on that work, from holding the product data to signing the Greek forms, with a clear note on which of them will file on your behalf.
ISO standards · 9 min
ISO 15270 is the document that names the routes plastics waste can take once it has been collected, and defines the words the industry uses to describe them. Below is what the 2008 edition actually covers, why its definition of recycling does not match the one in EU packaging law, and what changes when the five-part replacement series lands.
EPR statistics & facts · 7 min
No brand turns new clothes around faster than Zara, and the waste keeps pace. In 2026 they are estimated to produce around 500,000 tonnes of packaging and operational waste.
