by hugo | Sep 27, 2026 | Regulations & Compliance
Today the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (EU 2024/825), known as EmpCo, starts to apply across the European Union. It changes what companies can say about the environmental credentials of the products they sell to consumers, and there is no...
by hugo | Aug 12, 2026 | Regulations & Compliance
As of today, 12 August 2026, the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation applies. After a year in which this date was treated as the moment the recycled-content rules arrive, it is worth being precise about what actually changes now, because that is not quite what...
by hugo | Jun 30, 2026 | Regulations & Compliance
The PPWR sets minimum recycled-content levels for plastic packaging, phased in from 2030 and rising again in 2040, and it counts only post-consumer recycled material toward those targets. That is the rule in one sentence. The rest of this piece is about what it means...
