PPWR
Recycled content (Art. 7)
Record PCR shares per component, evidence them and check them against the minimum quotas for 2030 and 2040.
What does Art. 7 require?
Art. 7 sets minimum shares of post-consumer recycled content for plastic packaging — staggered by material class, with two milestone years, 2030 and 2040. PET bottles in food contact carry different quotas from other plastic packaging.
Reguly keeps a PCR entry per packaging component, with value, recycling method, evidence and validity. The status is computed live against the threshold: compliant, at risk or non-compliant. When a certificate expires, the entry falls back.
What should be recorded?
- Every plastic component. Bottle, sleeve, cap — one value per component, not one for the product.
- The method. Mechanical, chemical or mass balance. The regulation does not treat them alike.
- The evidence. A certificate such as EuCertPlast, or batch-level supplier evidence — with an expiry date.
Fields per entry
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Material class* | Decides the threshold. PET in food contact, other plastic in food contact, single-use beverage bottle or other plastic packaging. |
| PCR share* | Post-consumer recycled content as a percentage. Computed against the 2030 and 2040 quotas. |
| Recycling method | Mechanical, chemical or mass balance (mixed). |
| Evidence | Certificate or supplier declaration. Without evidence the value counts as an assertion. |
| Valid until | Expiry of the evidence. After that the status falls back and the entry shows as at risk. |
| Supplier | Link into the address book. From here the path leads straight to a data request. |
* Required field
A value without evidence does not hold
The quota can only be claimed with verifiable evidence. Reguly accepts values without it but flags them as at risk — so the gap stays visible and does not end up in the declaration of conformity.
Common questions
The quotas only apply from 2030 — why record them now?
Because the evidence cannot be obtained retrospectively. Anyone claiming a quota in 2030 needs an unbroken series of records up to then, not a single value from the milestone year.
What is mass balance?
An allocation method where recycled content is assigned to a batch by calculation rather than physically. Reguly keeps it as its own method because recognition depends on it.
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