{"id":3555,"date":"2026-08-11T13:29:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plastrans.kinsta.cloud\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:29:50","slug":"business-and-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plastrans.com\/en\/business-and-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Business and Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Bild -->\n    \n\n    <div data-aos=\"fade-up\" data-aos-duration=\"1000\"  class=\"ce ce-text\n             \" id=\"\">\n        \n        <div class=\"container-fluid\">                <div class=\"row\">\r\n        <div class=\"col-12 col-md-12 col-xl-12 mx-auto text-left\">\r\n            <h3 class=\"\">PPWR Watch: What the Packaging Regulations mean for the polymer industry<\/h3>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n                        <div class=\"row\">\n                <div class=\"ce-text__text col-12 col-md-12 col-xl-12 mx-auto text-left\">\n                    <p id=\"ember411\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Most PPWR coverage is written for brand owners and packaging designers. But the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR, Regulation (EU) 2025\/40) reshapes something further upstream: what polymer grades get specified, how recycled content gets sourced and proven, and which feedstocks and chain-of-custody models actually clear the compliance bar.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"ember412\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__heading-3\">Why this is a polymer-industry story, not just a packaging-design one<\/h3>\n<p id=\"ember413\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">PPWR applies directly across all 27 member states from 12 August 2026, replacing the fragmented national implementations of the old Packaging Directive (94\/62\/EC) with one rulebook. For polymer suppliers, the practical effect is that recyclability and recycled-content requirements are no longer voluntary sustainability commitments negotiated brand-by-brand, they become market-access conditions attached to the resin, compound, or masterbatch itself. A polymer that can\u2019t be documented against PPWR\u2019s criteria is a polymer that a customer increasingly can\u2019t legally place on the EU market.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember414\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">That shifts real work onto suppliers: proving material composition, recycled content share, recyclability compatibility, and substance compliance becomes part of what you sell alongside the polymer.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">What lands on 12 August 2026<\/h3>\n<p id=\"ember417\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">From the application date, several obligations become binding immediately, with no grandfathering for existing stock:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PFAS restriction in food-contact packaging (Article 5(5)).<\/strong>\u00a0Three thresholds apply: 25 ppb for any individual non-polymeric PFAS substance, 250 ppb for the sum of non-polymeric PFAS, and 50 ppm for total fluorine. There is no stock-exhaustion period \u2014 food-contact packaging placed on the market after 12 August 2026 must comply regardless of manufacture date. For polymer producers supplying food-contact grades, formulation and additive traceability data needs to be ready now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heavy metal limits<\/strong>\u00a0(100 mg\/kg combined for lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium) continue to apply \u2014 relevant for anyone supplying recycled or reprocessed material where legacy contamination is a known risk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Declaration of Conformity (DoC) and technical documentation<\/strong>\u00a0(Annex VII\/VIII). Brand owners placing packaging on the market need a bill of materials covering every component, including polymer composition, and \u2014 per Commission guidance published 30 March 2026 \u2014 self-declarations from suppliers are explicitly not sufficient proof; test data and documented risk assessments are expected. That evidentiary burden runs upstream to the polymer supplier.<\/li>\n<li><strong>EPR fee modulation<\/strong>\u00a0begins phasing in, tied to recyclability, recycled content, reusability, and substances of concern \u2014 turning material choice into a direct cost lever for your customers, and therefore a purchasing criterion for polymer selection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"ember419\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Note: general recyclability under Article 6(1) is already required from 12 August 2026, but until the harmonised Design-for-Recycling criteria arrive, manufacturers only need to meet the older EN 13430:2004 standard \u2014 the stricter, grade-based assessment doesn\u2019t land until 2030.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"ember420\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__heading-3\">The numbers that will actually determine which polymers win<\/h3>\n<p id=\"ember421\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">This is the part with direct commercial weight. Article 7 sets tiered minimum recycled-content thresholds for plastic packaging, verified at manufacturing-plant level, per year:<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember422\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Single-use plastic beverage bottles must reach 30% recycled content from 2030, rising to 65% from 2040. Contact-sensitive PET packaging (excluding beverage bottles) follows the same 30% threshold from 2030, rising to 50% from 2040. Contact-sensitive non-PET packaging starts lower, at 10% from 2030, rising to 25% from 2040. All other plastic packaging must reach 35% from 2030, rising to 65% from 2040. Plastic components under 5% of total packaging weight are exempt. Compostable plastics and medical\/pharmaceutical\/IVD packaging are also excluded.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember423\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">These targets are what should be driving PCR\/PIR sourcing conversations today \u2014 food-grade PCR is currently reliably available at scale mainly for PET, which is a real supply constraint for the non-PET contact-sensitive category. Alongside this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Design-for-Recycling (DfR) criteria and recyclability performance grades (A\/B\/C)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 due by\u00a0<strong>1 January 2028<\/strong>, binding for market access from\u00a0<strong>2030<\/strong>\u00a0(packaging below Grade C \u2014 under 70% recyclable by weight \u2014 won\u2019t be market-eligible from 2030; Grade C itself phases out by 2038). Until this methodology lands, mono-material structures and drop-in bio-based analogues (bio-PE, bio-PET) that already integrate into existing mechanical recycling streams carry the least regulatory risk, since they don\u2019t depend on a grading system that doesn\u2019t fully exist yet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Review of biobased plastic packaging (Article 8)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Commission review due\u00a0<strong>12 February 2028<\/strong>, assessing whether biobased feedstock can substitute for post-consumer recycled content in food-contact applications where suitable recycling technology isn\u2019t yet available. This is a live opening for biobased polymer suppliers, but it\u2019s a review, not a guarantee.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Compostability requirements (Article 9)<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 by 12 February 2028, biodegradable plastic packaging outside the narrow compostable-use exemptions (tea bags, fruit\/veg labels) must be designed for material recycling under Article 6, without disrupting other recycling streams \u2014 a direct constraint on which biodegradable grades stay viable outside niche compostable applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"ember425\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__heading-3\">Recycled-content accounting: the methodology to watch<\/h3>\n<p id=\"ember426\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">On\u00a0<strong>30 June 2026<\/strong>, the Commission adopted\u00a0<strong>Implementing Decision (EU) 2026\/1425<\/strong>, replacing Decision 2023\/2683, setting harmonised rules for calculating, verifying, and reporting recycled plastic content in single-use PET beverage bottles under the Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD). This is a SUPD instrument, not a PPWR one \u2014 but it\u2019s the first EU methodology to formally include\u00a0<strong>chemically recycled content alongside mechanical recycling<\/strong>, using mass-balance accounting applied at facility level (attributed volumes can\u2019t be transferred between facilities). Recycled plastic from OECD countries outside the EU\/EEA only counts from\u00a0<strong>21 November 2027<\/strong>; non-OECD material needs an equivalence agreement.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ember427\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__paragraph\">Industry bodies including Plastics Europe have flagged this decision as a likely template for PPWR\u2019s own Article 7 methodology. For polymer suppliers with chemical recycling capacity in their portfolio, this is the first concrete signal of how that material will be counted and audited.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"ember428\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__heading-3\">Where this leaves polymer sourcing decisions today<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Mono-material and drop-in bio-based grades (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plastrans.com\/en\/produkte\/biopolymers-plastrans\/\">bio-PE, bio-PET<\/a>)<\/strong>\u00a0carry the least regulatory uncertainty right now, integrating into recycling infrastructure that already exists rather than depending on DfR criteria not due until 2028.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chemically recycled content\u2019s accounting treatment is being defined right now<\/strong>, via the SUPD Implementing Decision \u2014 worth understanding ahead of the equivalent PPWR-wide rules.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Documentation is now a product attribute.<\/strong>\u00a0Chain-of-custody certification, recycled-content share, and substance compliance data need to travel with the polymer \u2014 Declaration of Conformity requirements already apply from August 2026, and self-declarations alone won\u2019t satisfy them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><em>Plastrans Technologies:<\/em>\u00a0This is the part of the PPWR story that\u2019s easy to lose in the legal detail: none of the targets above are things a brand owner can solve alone \u2014 they depend on what their polymer supplier can actually document and deliver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plastrans.com\/en\/company\/certification\/\"><strong><em>ISCC PLUS chain-of-custody certification<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>\u00a0is built for exactly the documentation gap described in Section 2 \u2014 traceable, third-party-verified material composition and recycled\/bio-based content share, rather than a supplier self-declaration that the Commission\u2019s own guidance says won\u2019t hold up.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plastrans.com\/en\/company\/certification\/\"><strong><em>ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>\u00a0support the technical documentation and quality-management evidence base that Annex VII\/VIII conformity assessments increasingly expect.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plastrans.com\/en\/produkte\/biopolymers-plastrans\/\">Portfolio breadth across drop-in bio-based (bio-PE, bio-PET)<\/a>\u00a0and conventional grades<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0lets customers de-risk 2030 recyclability exposure now, per the guidance in Section 3, without waiting for the Design-for-Recycling criteria to be finalised.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"ember432\" class=\"ember-view reader-text-block__heading-3\">Sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>European Commission, DG Environment \u2014 Packaging waste policy page:\u00a0<a class=\"mXmIffBRMgVcAwmZYaqqxwAZsbtdlkhwE \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/environment.ec.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">environment.ec.europa.eu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_26_664\">European Commission Press Corner \u2014 \u201eCommission publishes guidance to support implementation of new packaging rules\u201c<\/a>\u00a0(30 March 2026):\u00a0<a class=\"mXmIffBRMgVcAwmZYaqqxwAZsbtdlkhwE \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">ec.europa.eu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/eli\/reg\/2025\/40\/oj\/eng\">EUR-Lex \u2014 Regulation (EU) 2025\/40 (PPWR) and Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026\/1425 (30 June 2026)<\/a>:\u00a0<a class=\"mXmIffBRMgVcAwmZYaqqxwAZsbtdlkhwE \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">eur-lex.europa.eu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/supplychaincompliance.bakermckenzie.com\/\">Baker McKenzie \u2014 \u201eEU: Navigating the PPWR \u2013 Insights from the Guidance and FAQs published by the EU Commission\u201c<\/a>:\u00a0<a class=\"mXmIffBRMgVcAwmZYaqqxwAZsbtdlkhwE \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/supplychaincompliance.bakermckenzie.com\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">supplychaincompliance.bakermckenzie.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>    <\/div>\n\n    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most PPWR coverage is written for brand owners and packaging designers. 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