PPWR is coming:
Is your packaging ready to comply?
Welcome to the PPWR Hub
This hub is designed to help you understand what PPWR is, the key compliance timelines, and how it impacts your business. We cover its effects across industries like Food & Beverage, Packaging & Printing, and Retail, making it easier for you to understand its importance.
We provide the 4 best PPWR solutions to help you achieve compliance, guiding you, your suppliers, and your buyers so everyone can get on board the PPWR journey smoothly.
What is the timeline of implementation for PPWR?
Figure: Year-by-year EU PPWR roadmap (2025–2030) outlining essential compliance actions.
Choosing the right PPWR solution starts with understanding what problem you’re actually solving. Are you looking for a compliance platform to manage data, automate Declarations of Conformity, and prove adherence to recyclability targets and plastic content thresholds, or a design tool to help you re-engineer packaging toward those targets? The difference matters.
A compliance-focused platform, like Agriplace, helps you collect and structure supplier, product, and packaging data down to the material-layer granularity required by PPWR. It connects that data to the right fields, automates reporting, and ensures traceability across your supply chain. A design-oriented solution, such as Packa or 4Pack, is built for teams who already have clean data and want to optimise packaging design — changing materials, formats, or recyclability percentages to meet targets.
What to assess in PPWR solutions?
A compliance solution should:
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offer granular level control over your packaging and product data
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enable sending and sharing Declarations of Conformity
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automate data collection
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handle packaging specification data e.g. plastic composition percentages, presence of PFAS & recyclability targets
A design solution should:
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stimulate design changes
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model recyclability design options
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suggest alternative methods/materials
Comparison by industry scope (generalist vs specialist) & solution type (compliance vs packaging)
4 Best PPWR Solutions
Compliance solutions
Industry Specialist
Industry Generalist
Agriplace
osapiens
4Pack
packa
Packaging design solution
This positioning matrix compares leading PPWR compliance solutions by industry scope and solution depth. “Industry scope” refers to how broadly a solution can be applied across different sectors. ''Solution type'' describes what direction the platform takes in addressing the compliance process.
Agriplace stands out as a broad, end-to-end compliance platform, while Packa and 4Pack focus on specialized packaging data, and Osapiens offers a generalist, cross-industry approach.
Packa specialises in packaging data. It is not a compliance solution but a packaging management software. It is a good option for companies who only want to manage their packaging.
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Solution Type: Specialized packaging compliance platform.
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Scope: Narrow scope focused on packaging data, specification management, and regulatory checks.
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Industry Fit: Ideal for packaging manufacturers and teams working directly with packaging specifications in consumer goods.
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Strength: Excellent at packaging-specific workflows.
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Weakness: Limited to packaging data only; not a full product compliance system.
For: Packaging producers and consumer-goods brands that already have supplier data and need an easy way to control, version, and verify their packaging specifications.
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About PPWR
• What is PPWR?
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is a new EU regulation designed to reshape how packaging is designed, used, and recovered across the single market.
Coming into force in August 2026, it introduces progressively stricter requirements through 2030 to reduce waste, increase recyclability, and promote circular packaging systems.
• The realities of PPWR compliance
The PPWR obligations range from recyclability targets, to PFAS bans, and even deal in how packaging for transported goods is created.
For many organisations, the PPWR is not just a compliance challenge, it’s a data challenge, demanding end-to-end visibility into packaging materials, suppliers, and product life cycles.
Agriplace is uniquely positioned to bridge product and packaging compliance. Its biggest advantage is enabling companies to get packaging and product data in the first place, not just analyse what they already have.
Agriplace allows you to automate supplier data collection across complex supply chains and turn unstructured supplier documents into digestible, actionable insights.
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Solution type: End to end solution on packaging and compliance
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Scope: Broad scope of solution from collecting and managing documents to checking compliance against specific metadata fields. Particularly focused in the Food & Bev/Grocery Retail sectors.
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Strength: guides you from collecting data to complying with certifications. An all-in-one solution that integrates with your ERP & has a direct connection to food & Bev certification bodies like GLOBALG.A.P., BRC and more.
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Weakness: Less specialised in sectors outside of food and beverage/grocery retail. Built for supply chain management. Not a specific packaging lifecycle management platform.
For: Companies who want a solution that scales and can fulfil all your compliance needs.