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Coverage of EPR, regulation, waste, sustainability, and statistics — the news and the numbers behind them.
EPR essentials · 10 min read
Poland puts packaging, electronics and batteries into one register, BDO, but a company abroad reaches it three different ways. Below are the six steps to get your BDO entry in the right order, with who files each stream and what the entry makes due next.
PPWR · 8 min
Recycling symbols on packaging, from the plastic codes and the Green Dot to France's Triman logo and the Mobius loop, each answer a different question, and PPWR changes most of them between 2027 and 2029. This guide explains what each symbol means, what the EU packaging regulation does to it and when, and what replaces it on your packaging.
EPR essentials · 10 min
All three of Belgium's EPR registrations run through a scheme that files the official entry for its members. Below are the six steps to join Fost Plus or Valipac, Recupel and Bebat in the right order, with who signs up for each one and what each makes due next.
PPWR · 7 min
The numbers and abbreviations on plastic packaging, from PET 1 to PS 6, come from an EU decision of 1997 that PPWR repeals on 12 August 2028. This guide explains each code, who the codes were made for and the harmonised EU label that takes their place.
EPR essentials · 9 min
Sweden takes all three EPR notifications in one register at one agency, Naturvårdsverket, but each needs a producer responsibility organisation first. Below are the six steps to register packaging, electronics and batteries in the right order, with who files each one and what each makes due next.
11 min
Every consumer product sold in the EU under GPSR needs a company established in the EU that answers to the authorities for it, and a seller outside the EU has to name one before the first sale. This guide explains what that responsible person does, which four kinds of company can take the role, how to set one up in six steps and where its details must appear.
13 min
Every company that brings coffee, cocoa, wood, rubber, soya, palm oil or cattle products onto the EU market, or sells them on inside it, has a role under the EU Deforestation Regulation from 30 December 2026. This guide explains the four roles, the products that bring a company in, what each role has to do and when its duties start.
EPR statistics & facts · 9 min
For 2026 the UK's waste works out at an estimated 208 million tonnes, moved on from a 2024 estimate built on England's measured total, because Defra's newest UK-wide count is from 2020. Below are the year-by-year totals, where the waste comes from, how much households and packaging add, and how the UK stands against its packaging targets.
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.
11 min
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 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
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.
