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Coverage of EPR, regulation, waste, sustainability, and statistics — the news and the numbers behind them.
EPR statistics & facts · 9 min
Most of the waste behind an H&M T-shirt is made long before the shirt reaches a shop. Adding that hidden production waste to what the group's own stores and distribution centres throw away puts H&M on course for roughly 195,000 tonnes in 2026, of which nearly three quarters never leaves a factory.
EPR software · 12 min
Sphera and Assent both sell packaging EPR software to manufacturers, but one runs the filings across more than 360 schemes while the other collects the packaging data your suppliers hold. Here is what each company publishes on coverage, filing, PPWR and price.
EPR essentials · 11 min
Germany will not let you sell a packaged product until you are in the LUCID packaging register, and the law says you have to enter yourself rather than pay someone to do it for you. Here is what the register asks for, what your registration number is good for, and the two duties that begin the moment you have one.
EPR software · 17 min
Ireland decides your packaging duty with two tests that both have to be true, more than 10 tonnes of packaging in a year and more than 1 million euro of turnover, and nobody in the Irish system measures either one for you. Below are six providers ranked on how much of the Irish job they take on, from the scheme that carries the legal obligation to the platform you run yourself.
ISO standards · 12 min
Burning packaging only counts as recovery if the fire hands back more energy than it spends heating its own smoke and ash. ISO 18605 is the international standard that turns that into a test.
EPR software · 8 min
PCX Solutions is enterprise packaging EPR software for global consumer brands, covering more than 49 markets and pairing compliance with plastic recovery. Here are six PCX Solutions alternatives, what each one is built around, and how to choose by the shape of your packaging portfolio.
EPR software · 16 min
Sweden asks producers for two different counts off one catalogue, kilograms of packaging by material and the number of cups, lids and wrappers behind the litter fee. Below are six providers ranked on how much of that Swedish job each one carries, from holding the packaging data to getting you a place in the producer register.
ISO standards · 11 min
Recycled material is only as credible as the record behind it. ISO 59014, published in 2024, sets out how a recovery operation should be run and what it has to be able to show about the material leaving its gate.
EPR software · 14 min
Valpak and Ecosurety are both UK packaging compliance schemes, so the real question is not whether to hand the work over but which company you want holding it. Here is what each one publishes about buying your recycling evidence, service breadth, international reach and price.
EPR software · 11 min
Valpak vs Ecoveritas is a choice between two different kinds of provider. Valpak is a packaging compliance scheme that registers you and buys your recycling evidence, while Ecoveritas is an independent data company that stays out of that market on purpose.
EPR statistics & facts · 9 min
Around 850,000 tonnes of waste comes out of BMW's factories in a year, and almost all of it goes straight back into new material. Below are BMW's own published figures from 2019 onwards, what that waste is actually made of, and where the small share they throw away ends up.
EPR statistics & facts · 9 min
Nobody publishes a waste figure for AliExpress, not the marketplace itself and not Alibaba who own it. Below are the one official number that does contain them, the parcel volumes Europe counts, what those parcels turn out to hold, and the EU rules about to make somebody answerable.
