PPWR Deadlines: What Needs to Be Done by When?
The date you keep hearing is August 12, 2026. That makes sense, since the PPWR takes effect on that date. However, that’s not the date you should base your planning on. The requirements that really cost money and time—such as recycled content, recyclability, and prohibited packaging types—won’t take effect until 2030. But preparing for them […]
What changes need to be made to your packaging? An overview of the PPWR requirements
Most articles about the PPWR list the requirements: recycled content, recyclability, and prohibited packaging types. That’s helpful, but it leaves out the step that requires the most work in practice: demonstrating that your packaging complies, with technical documentation and a declaration of conformity. Many companies don’t have anything ready for that yet. In this article, […]
PPWR: the new European packaging regulation explained
Almost every company packs something. A box, a film, a bottle or a bag to get your product safely to the customer. Exactly that everyday part of your business will change dramatically in the coming years. In 2023, the EU produced 79.7 million tons of packaging waste, or 177.8 kilograms per inhabitant. That mountain has […]
From low-skilled labor to skilled workers: labor migration requires a different conversation
One in ten workers in the Netherlands is a migrant worker. They are on the production lines, building our houses and soon laying the power grid that will carry the energy transition. At the same time, the same reports have been coming in for years: exploitation, poor housing, people on temporary contracts year after year. […]
Batch or individual DPP? When is a group passport sufficient?
For each product, the Digital Product Passport must provide insight into composition, origin, environmental impact and life-cycle information. But that does not mean that each passport must be set up at the individual product level. According to the ESPR, the DPP will be linked via a unique identifier, with the level determined per delegated acts […]