44 terms covering extended producer responsibility, the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, UK packaging rules, US state programs, eco-modulated fees and the data work behind all of them. Each entry explains what the term means and what it changes operationally.
New to the subject? Start with extended producer responsibility, then read the US EPR hub or the PPWR hub.
The Dutch packaging waste fund that administers producer responsibility and collects the packaging levy in the Netherlands.
The PPWR limit on void space in grouped, transport and e-commerce packaging, measured as a proportion of the packaging volume.
A locally established entity appointed to carry a foreign producer's EPR obligations in a market where the producer has no establishment.
The per-tonne charge for a packaging material category before eco-modulation bonuses or penalties are applied.
A discount on EPR fees granted for verified environmental improvements such as recycled content, mono-material design or weight reduction.
The company whose brand appears on a packaged product, and the first party in the EPR responsibility hierarchy in nearly every jurisdiction.
The producer responsibility organisation selected to run packaging EPR programs in most US states with packaging EPR laws.
A consolidated schedule of registration, reporting and payment deadlines across every jurisdiction a producer sells into.
Packaging records broken down to each individual component, with material, weight and attributes captured separately rather than as a SKU total.
Italy's national packaging consortium, which collects the environmental contribution on packaging placed on the Italian market.
The packaging and paper categories that a specific EPR program regulates, defining exactly what must be reported and paid for.
A revenue, tonnage or unit level below which a producer is exempt from some or all EPR obligations in a jurisdiction.
A system charging a refundable deposit on beverage containers to drive high return rates, usually operating alongside but separately from EPR.
Designing packaging so it can be collected, sorted and reprocessed at scale, and under PPWR a legal requirement graded from A to E.
A machine-readable record of a product's material, circularity and compliance data, accessed through a data carrier such as a QR code.
The German model in which competing private schemes collect and recycle household packaging alongside the municipal waste system.
Packaging used to ship an order directly to a consumer, regulated separately under PPWR and often in scope for marketplace EPR liability.
Adjusting EPR fees up or down according to the environmental performance of the packaging, rewarding recyclable design and penalising problem formats.
The French term for an accredited producer responsibility organisation, licensed by the state to collect EPR fees for a defined waste stream.
Spain's collective schemes for household packaging and for glass, operating under the Royal Decree on packaging waste.
A policy model that makes the producer of a packaged good financially and often operationally responsible for its packaging at end of life.
A licensing trademark indicating a producer contributes to a packaging recovery scheme, mandatory in some markets and voluntary in others.
The PPWR requirement for standardised material and disposal labelling on packaging and on waste receptacles across the EU.
Germany's mandatory public register where producers declare themselves and their packaging volumes before licensing with a dual system.
A surcharge applied to EPR fees for packaging with recognised recyclability problems, such as dark pigments or non-separable multi-material construction.
A chain-of-custody method that allocates a quantity of recycled feedstock to a share of output, used to evidence chemically recycled content.
The sorting plant that separates mixed recyclables into material streams, and the practical arbiter of whether packaging is recyclable.
Packaging built from a single polymer or material family so it can be sorted and reprocessed without separation.
The optical sorting technology used in most material recovery facilities, which cannot detect carbon-black pigmented plastics.
The PPWR obligation to reduce packaging weight and volume to the minimum required for function, safety and consumer acceptance.
The legal moment when packaging first becomes available in a jurisdiction, determining which entity and which year the obligation falls in.
The share of a packaging component made from material recovered after consumer use, regulated by minimum targets under PPWR and taxed in the UK.
The EU regulation that replaces the packaging directive with directly applicable rules on recyclability, recycled content, reuse and labelling.
The legal entity responsible for registering and paying EPR fees on packaging, usually the brand owner and otherwise the importer or first seller.
A collective scheme that producers join to discharge their EPR obligations, handling registration, reporting infrastructure, fee collection and recycling contracts.
The UK methodology that grades packaging red, amber or green and adjusts pEPR fees according to the grade.
Whether packaging is actually collected, sorted and reprocessed into new material at scale, not merely whether it is theoretically recyclable.
PPWR obligations requiring defined shares of packaging in certain categories to be reusable or refillable by set dates.
California's Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, the most demanding US packaging EPR law.
The annual declaration of packaging weight by material category placed on a market, and the basis for nearly every EPR invoice.
France's mandatory sorting logo and accompanying sorting instructions, required on consumer packaging placed on the French market.
The UK's extended producer responsibility scheme, charging producers modulated per-tonne fees for household packaging waste.
A UK tax charged per tonne on plastic packaging containing less than 30 percent post-consumer recycled content.
Germany's packaging law, requiring LUCID registration, dual-system licensing and volume reporting for all packaging placed on the German market.
Packgine maps your packaging data to the obligations behind every term on this page, across US states, the EU and the UK.