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Coverage of EPR, regulation, waste, sustainability, and statistics — the news and the numbers behind them.
EPR essentials · 10 min read
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.
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Since December 2024, every product sold to consumers in the EU has had to meet one safety law, and a seller outside the EU needs a company inside it to answer for the goods. This guide explains what GPSR requires, which products it covers, who can act as your EU responsible person and the six duties it puts on a manufacturer.
EPR essentials · 10 min
Spain registers packaging with the environment ministry and electronics and batteries with the Ministry of Industry. Below are the six steps to get into the RPP, the RII-AEE and the RII-PyA in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
EPR statistics & facts · 8 min
France is estimated to generate about 343.8 million tonnes of waste in 2026, level with the 343.2 million Eurostat last measured in 2022, the second-largest total in the EU. Below are the figures year by year, what the waste is made of, how much of it is packaging, and where France stands on the EU recycling targets.
EPR essentials · 10 min
Italy registers electronics and batteries with the state and packaging through CONAI, a private consortium. Below are the six steps to get into the Registro AEE, the Registro Pile and CONAI 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.
ISO standards · 9 min
An ISO 14034 verification proves one thing, that a specific performance claim about an environmental technology held up when an independent verifier checked it under stated conditions. Below is who does what in that process, how it runs from application to statement, and where the result helps a producer.
EPR essentials · 10 min
France records every EPR stream in one register, SYDEREP, and the entry is always made by your éco-organisme rather than by you. Below are the six steps to hold an IDU for packaging, electronics and batteries in the right order, with what each éco-organisme asks for and what each IDU makes due next.
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.
EPR essentials · 10 min
Germany runs three producer registers for the streams most producers trigger, and it gives three different answers to who may file each one from abroad. Below are the six steps to get registered in LUCID and with stiftung ear in the right order, with what each register asks for and what each one makes due next.
EPR statistics & facts · 10 min
Factory waste at Tesla reached 670,209 tonnes in 2025 on the company's own figures, close to double the 2023 total. Below, that record is set out year by year with where the waste went, why one year nearly doubled it, and the yardstick Tesla stopped printing.
