Your Packaging Already Has a Barcode. Give It a Disposal Guide.
A scannable link to correct local disposal guidance — live today for PP5 packaging across 30 EU/EEA markets, and designed to grow into PPWR's harmonised sorting labels.
PPWR — Not EPR — Is What Will Put Digital Labelling on Your Packaging
It is widely said that "EPR requires digital recycling instructions." That is not accurate. Extended Producer Responsibility is national and is about registration, fees and reporting: you register with each Member State's scheme (LUCID in Germany, Citeo's UIN in France, CONAI in Italy) and report the packaging you place on the market. What actually drives digital packaging labelling is the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), on a published timeline: traceability and operator-identification obligations applied from 12 August 2026; the Commission must publish the harmonised sorting-pictogram methodology by 12 February 2027; harmonised sorting labels and material codes apply from 12 August 2028; and labelling for reusable packaging and its QR data carriers follows around February 2029. The practical consequence is that a QR supplements the physical on-pack label — it does not replace it (except for packaging below a minimum surface area, which may use a digital carrier instead). So the useful thing to do now is give consumers correct local disposal guidance and be ready for the sorting-label rules when they land.
A Free On-Pack Disposal QR for PP5 — Live Today
Today's shipping product is a free PP5 (polypropylene) disposal QR generator. You pick the market and the disposal route, optionally add your brand and EPR registration ID, and get a QR encoding a URL to a public disposal page. The consumer scans it and sees guidance for that market — including the local stream's native name, such as Gelber Sack in Germany or Bac de tri jaune in France. It requires no sign-up and no account. The broader Recycle-Link vision on this page — multi-material declaration, scan-time municipal detection, registry exports — is roadmap, and is labelled as such below.
Choose from the EU-27 plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. 19 of those markets show the local plastics stream under its native name (Gelber Sack, Bac de tri jaune, Ecoponto amarelo, PMD…); the rest show the generic route guidance.
Optionally attach your brand name, your national EPR registration ID (LUCID, UIN, CONAI…) and the net weight in grams, so the identifiers an auditor asks for are carried by the code itself.
The QR points at our disposal page, so we can improve the guidance shown for a market without you reprinting anything. Note the honest limit: the market and route are encoded at generation time, so changing those does require a new code.
Capabilities Designed for Enterprise Operations
Detecting the scanner's location and serving that municipality's rules is not built. Today the market is chosen by you when you generate the code, not detected at scan time.
Declaring each component separately — carton, tray, film, ink, adhesive — with its own sorting classification is planned. The current generator covers a single PP5 item.
Per-scan audit trails for producer-registry submissions and GRI/CDP exports are not built. National EPR registers are expected to come online from around mid-2027, which is the sensible time to build against them.
Estimate Reprint Cost Avoided
This is an illustrative estimate, not a quote. Where a QR lets you correct guidance centrally instead of reprinting artwork, the avoided cost scales with volume — typical label reprints run €0.008–0.02 per unit:
Built for Enterprise Packaging & Waste Compliance
We Say What Is Actually Built
Everything above is marked either available today or roadmap. The shipping product is the free PP5 disposal QR and its public guidance page; the larger Recycle-Link platform is honestly labelled as not yet built.
Grounded in the PPWR Timeline
Our roadmap is sequenced against the regulation rather than ahead of it: the sorting-pictogram methodology is due February 2027 and harmonised labels apply from August 2028, so that feature is designed now and finalised when the rules exist.
Shares the Passport Infrastructure
The same platform runs EU Digital Product Passports on GS1 Digital Link with machine-readable JSON-LD. As PPWR and ESPR converge, packaging disposal data is intended to become a view of that same product record.
What You Get on Each Plan
No credit card required for Free. Pro plan unlocks everything Packaging & Waste Compliance needs.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| PP5 disposal QR generator | ✓ | ✓ |
| Country-specific disposal page (30 markets) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Brand, EPR registration ID, net weight fields | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-material declaration per SKU | ✗ | Roadmap |
| Scan-time municipal routing | ✗ | Roadmap |
| Producer registry + ESG exports | ✗ | Roadmap |
How to Set Up QRSansar for Packaging & Waste Compliance
- Pick the Market and Disposal Route
At /pp5-disposal, search for the market you are placing the packaging on (EU-27 plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and choose the route: plastics/yellow bin, general waste, drop-off, or composite.
- Add Your Producer Details (Optional)
Attach your brand name, your national EPR registration ID and the item's net weight in grams. Your producer details are never sent to us — the URL is built entirely in your browser (we log only anonymous QR-type usage).
- Print It Beside the Required Marking
Download the QR and place it next to — never instead of — the on-pack marking required by Directive 94/62/EC and the PPWR. Always keep the resin code (♻ 5 PP) and a short text instruction.
- Preview What Consumers See
Open /pp5-info/sample to show stakeholders the exact page a consumer lands on after scanning, before you commit the artwork.
Ready to See It in Action?
Our team will map QRSansar Enterprise to your specific packaging & waste compliance workflow — no generic demo.
Informational only — not legal or compliance advice. qrsansar.com is a QR generator and hosts a public disposal-information page; we are not a registered EPR scheme operator and do not issue producer registration numbers. To place packaging on EU markets you must register with the relevant national EPR scheme (LUCID, Citeo, CONAI, etc.), and the on-pack marking required by Directive 94/62/EC and the PPWR remains your responsibility. A QR supplements that marking rather than replacing it. Features marked roadmap are not yet available.