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, […]
Are you a producer covered by the PPWR? Your role and obligations explained
The same packaging can mean a mountain of obligations for one company and almost nothing for another. The difference isn’t in the packaging, but in your role. And it’s precisely that role that many companies misjudge. The importer who assumes that his foreign supplier will take care of it. The online store that thinks, “We’re […]
How Ducky Dons brought focus to responsible sourcing
What risk is there in a comforter? For Ducky Dons, producer of comforters and pillows in Ermelo, this is not a rhetorical question. With international suppliers and relatively limited market power as an SME, getting a grip on the chain is not a given. The SVOM grant made it possible to tackle the due diligence […]
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. […]