ECOTIC Envases makes available to its affiliated producers the Collective Packaging Prevention and Ecodesign Plan 2025–2029, a tool designed to facilitate compliance with the obligations established in Royal Decree 1055/2022 on packaging and packaging waste.
Esta normativa establece que los productores de producto que, a lo largo de un año natural, introduzcan en el mercado una cantidad de envases igual o superior a determinados umbrales deberán aplicar un plan empresarial de prevención y ecodiseño con carácter quinquenal, ya sea de forma individual o mediante la adhesión a un plan colectivo. This regulation establishes that producers who, over the course of a calendar year, place on the market an amount of packaging equal to or exceeding certain thresholds must implement a five-year business prevention and ecodesign plan, either individually or by joining a collective plan.
Among the thresholds set by the Royal Decree, the following stand out:
- 250 tonnes, if exclusively glass
- 50 tonnes, if exclusively steel
- 30 tonnes, if exclusively aluminium
- 20 tonnes, if exclusively plastic
- 20 tonnes, if exclusively wood
- 15 tonnes, if exclusively cardboard or composite materials
- 300 tonnes, if involving multiple materials and none individually exceeds the above thresholds
Producers must implement these plans starting from the year following the one in which these thresholds are exceeded.
With this new Collective Packaging Prevention and Ecodesign Plan 2025–2029, ECOTIC Envases provides its producers with a collective pathway to meet this regulatory requirement and to advance in improving the environmental performance of packaging placed on the market.
The plan includes measures focused on prevention and ecodesign, including:
- increasing the proportion of reusable packaging
- increasing recyclable packaging
- improving the physical properties and composition of packaging to enhance reuse or recyclability
- reducing the weight of materials used, especially in single-use packaging
- reducing the total weight of packaging placed on the market
- avoiding unnecessarily heavy or oversized packaging
- incorporating secondary raw materials from recycling, whenever technically and economically feasible
Affiliated companies that believe they may be affected by this obligation can contact envases@ecotic.es
