{"id":100,"date":"2026-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:00:11","slug":"eu-ppwr-what-brands-need-from-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/eu-ppwr-what-brands-need-from-suppliers\/","title":{"rendered":"EU PPWR: what your packaging supplier should already be giving you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years a recyclability claim was something a brand asserted and a supplier nodded along with. The EU&#8217;s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation ends that arrangement. Recyclability becomes a documented property of the pack, assessed against defined criteria, and the evidence has to exist before the product reaches a shelf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The practical consequence for a brand is simple: the information you need lives with whoever manufactures your packaging. If your supplier cannot produce it on request, you cannot produce it for a regulator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are four documents worth asking for at quotation stage rather than after the order lands. Material composition by weight, broken down by component. Fibre origin with chain-of-custody references. A declaration covering inks, coatings and adhesives. And a recyclability assessment for the destination market, because kerbside streams differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason to ask early is not administrative. A pack that fails an assessment fails at the die-line, and the die-line is decided in the first week of a project. Retrofitting compliance onto a finished structure usually means retooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our position is to prepare that documentation alongside the quotation. If your compliance team has its own template, send it \u2014 we would rather complete yours than send you ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation turns recyclability from a marketing claim into a documented obligation. Here is the paperwork to ask for \u2014 and when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpackcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}