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title: Packaging Passports — your PPWR data, structured
description: "Meet PPWR obligations without the spreadsheet grind. Upload packaging specs — TracePass fills 66 fields: material, recyclability grade, recycled content, EPR."
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# Packaging Passports — your PPWR data, structured

> Meet PPWR obligations without the spreadsheet grind. Upload packaging specs — TracePass fills 66 fields: material, recyclability grade, recycled content, EPR.

You already track packaging material, recycled content, and EPR registration per SKU. TracePass structures that data into 66 PPWR-ready fields and generates per-format passports for every pack variant.

## Who it's for

Packaging producers, fillers, and brand owners placing primary / secondary / tertiary packaging on the EU market — food, beverage, e-commerce, rigid plastics, flexibles, paper, glass, aluminium.

## How TracePass helps

- Research agent reads Tetra Pak / CCEP / brand material-disclosure pages and fills material composition, recyclability grade, recycled-content %.
- Structured material-composition editor (% per material + functional layer) instead of free text that drifts SKU-to-SKU.
- EPR scheme as an enum per Member State (PRO Europe, DSD, Valorie, CITEO, etc.) — producer registration number captured as structured data.
- Batch creation scales to the distributor use case: thousands of SKU-variant passports from one product-line template.
- Recyclability-grade field is future-proof — current (national or voluntary) grade now, ready to update when PPWR harmonised criteria arrive.
- Built against Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, PPWR) — recyclability classes, minimum-recycled-content thresholds per material, and reuse-target reporting are all in the schema, ready for the staged enforcement dates.

## What the template covers

- Material composition (structured by layer)
- Recyclability grade (A / B / C)
- Recycled-content % per material
- Packaging weight, volume, pack-to-product ratio
- Return-scheme + EPR scheme + producer reg number
- Disposal + collection-points URL
- Food-contact + restricted-substance disclosure

## FAQ

### We have 1,500 pack formats across the catalog. Feasible?

Yes. Most packs share most fields — you define a product line once and batch-create the SKU-variant passports. Typical throughput: ~500 passports / minute on the batch API.

### Recyclability-grade A/B/C isn't finalised yet. What do we put?

Your current voluntary or national grade with the evidence source. TracePass stamps every update so when PPWR harmonised criteria land, the transition is traceable — not a rewrite.

### How do we evidence the recycled-content percentage PPWR asks for, rather than just stating a number?

Under PPWR (Reg (EU) 2025/40) recycled content is a regulated field, and a bare percentage with no source behind it is hard to defend in an audit. TracePass pulls the figure straight from your supplier datasheets, certificates and test reports, then records it with a confidence score and a link back to the exact source document. You review and approve each value before it publishes, so the number on the QR passport always traces to a file you can show a regulator.

### Does the packaging passport also cover our EPR registration, or is that a separate filing?

EPR registration stays a separate obligation you handle with your national producer-responsibility scheme; TracePass does not file it for you. What it does is treat the EPR registration reference as one of the PPWR-regulated packaging fields, capturing it alongside material and recyclability so the passport stays consistent with what you have already registered. That way the QR passport and your EPR record point to the same packaging data instead of drifting apart over time.