Is Your Packaging Actually Recyclable in Your Markets? Country Check

Recyclability · outcome by market

Material3-layer laminate (BOPP/BOPET/PE)

Not MRF-sortable in 4 of 6 markets

What Market Recyclability does

A recyclability claim is only true where the material is actually collected and reprocessed. This tool maps your material's real-world acceptance across six markets, so a “recyclable” claim you make in the EU isn't quietly false in the US or Brazil — the substantiation regulators and retailers increasingly demand.

Country-by-country collection and processing status across US, EU, UK, CA, MX, BR
Distinguishes a genuine recyclable claim from one that fails in a given market
Backs “recyclable” label substantiation for green-claims scrutiny
PackIndex recyclability dataset, region-selectable to your actual sales footprint

How it works

Choose your material
Select the substrate you use for the pack in question.
Review acceptance by country
Each market shows whether the material is genuinely collected and processed, or only nominally accepted.
Match it to your sales footprint
Focus on the countries you actually sell into to see where a recyclable claim holds and where it doesn't.
Substantiate or switch
Use the result to back a defensible claim, or pick a material that's accepted across your markets.

Frequently asked

Why isn't “recyclable” a single yes/no?

Recyclability is local: it depends on whether a country collects and reprocesses that material. The same pack can be genuinely recyclable in one market and effectively non-recyclable in another, so a blanket claim can be false where infrastructure is missing.

Does this help with green-claims rules?

Yes — regulators and retailers increasingly require recyclable claims to be substantiated per market. Mapping real collection and processing by country gives you the evidence base for a defensible claim.

How is this different from the Recycling Risk Scanner?

The scanner asks whether MRF machines can sort the pack; Market Recyclability asks whether the country actually collects and reprocesses the material end-to-end. Both matter for a credible claim.