Recycled content stops being a marketing claim and becomes a regulated figure the moment a Digital Product Passport has to report it per unit or per format. Under the EU Battery Regulation, the recycled-content share of cobalt, lead, lithium and nickel must be documented from 18 August 2028 at the earliest, and the battery passport carries it; minimum shares apply from 18 August 2031 and are shown in the technical documentation. PPWR sets minimum recycled-content percentages for plastic packaging, rising over time, which producers must be able to document — PPWR itself creates no packaging passport.
Because the figure feeds a legal obligation, its provenance matters: a recycled-content percentage needs a defensible source — supplier declarations, mass-balance records, or certification. TracePass treats recycled content as a structured DPP field, pulling the value from supporting documents with a confidence score and source attribution so the published percentage traces back to evidence, and a human approves it before it goes live.
Frequently asked
When do recycled-content rules for batteries apply?
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 Art. 8: the recycled-content share of cobalt, lead, lithium and nickel must be documented from 18 August 2028, or 24 months after the delegated act on the calculation method if that is later (the act is not yet adopted), and the battery passport carries that information. Minimum shares apply from 18 August 2031 (16 % cobalt, 85 % lead, 6 % lithium, 6 % nickel) and rise from 18 August 2036; they are demonstrated in the technical documentation.
How is recycled content verified for a passport?
It needs a traceable basis — supplier declarations, mass-balance accounting or third-party certification — rather than an unsupported claim. In TracePass the percentage enters the DPP as a structured field with a confidence score and a link back to the source document, and a human reviewer approves it before publishing.