Our calculator is the easiest way to calculate EPR fees for packaging.
The calculator returns accurate fees for packaging shipped into more than thirty-five markets. It covers EPR producer fees, single-use plastic taxes and deposit return scheme producer fees in one model, kept up to date by CIRCPACK analysts as schemes change.
The EPR Fee Calculator is a self-service product that returns the fees applicable to a piece of packaging across the markets a brand owner ships into. The fee categories covered include EPR producer fees, single-use plastic taxes, deposit return scheme producer fees and any other levy that scales with the recyclability of the packaging in each market.
The product is built to be used by both technical and non-technical teams. CIRCPACK makes the technical assumptions in the back end: which scheme applies to which format, which fee components compound, which thresholds trigger which modulation. The user inputs the packaging specification and the markets, and the calculator returns the fee picture. Standard packaging formats complete in under two minutes. Custom formats, defined inside the calculator by a small number of material and design attributes, complete in under ten.
The calculator covers more than thirty-five markets across the European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, North America, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. The underlying data is drawn from the Recycling Intelligence Platform, which tracks more than one hundred and fifty markets and is maintained continuously by CIRCPACK analysts and the auditors who work inside the Material Recovery Facilities those markets rely on.
Most teams that need insight into EPR fees have, until recently, chosen between two unsatisfactory options. The first is to assemble an Excel model per country from scheme documents and online research, which is fast to start, accurate by accident, and stale within weeks. The second is to commission a full enterprise integration that pipes scheme data into the existing finance or ERP systems, which takes months of consulting time and is justified only for the largest portfolios.
The EPR Fee Calculator is the simple third option. There is no integration to commission and no spreadsheet to assemble. All calculation rules are pre-mapped, we keep the tool continuously up to date, and a finance or sustainability lead can stand up a portfolio fee picture in an afternoon.
The calculator is not a compliance-grade fee submission tool. The fees it returns are accurate enough to inform portfolio decisions, supplier negotiations and design programmes; they are not intended to replace the formal fee declaration a producer files with each scheme operator. That focused scope is also what keeps the tool accessible.
Where a compliance-grade output is required, CIRCPACK delivers it through the SAP Responsible Design and Production partnership and through direct consulting engagements.
Talk to a CIRCPACK expert to get your team access to the EPR Fee Calculator. Or have a conversation about a compliance-grade engagement through the SAP Responsible Design and Production partnership.
Three steps from packaging specification to a fee picture.
Pick a standard format from the CIRCPACK library, or build a custom format by selecting a small number of attributes (material, weight, recyclability class, decoration). The calculator handles the scheme-mapping in the background.
Choose from the more than thirty-five markets the calculator covers. The applicable EPR scheme, single-use plastic levy, deposit return scheme and any other relevant levy resolve automatically for each market.
Per-SKU fees for each market, the components that drive the total, and the sensitivity to a small change in material, weight or recyclability class. Exportable for procurement, finance and design review.
All packaging materials, EPR producer fees, single-use plastic taxes, deposit return scheme producer fees, eco-modulations and other recyclability-linked levies across more than thirty-five markets, in one model.
You can start from a standard packaging format from the CIRCPACK library and make some small changes, or define a custom format by materials, components, weight and recyclability attributes.
Per-SKU fees per market, the components that drive each total, and the sensitivity to a small change in design or volume.
Exportable for finance, procurement and packaging format design review.
For standard packaging formats you get a fee picture in under two minutes. Custom formats complete in under ten.
For finance, sustainability, packaging and procurement teams that need a fast, accurate fee picture without standing up a full enterprise integration.
Forecast EPR fee exposure across the portfolio in a single model, refreshed as schemes update their tables.
Quantify the fee impact of a design change before committing to a redesign programme.
Bake fee exposure into the supplier-decision criteria when sourcing new packaging formats.
Tell us what you ship and where. We reply within three business days.
No. The calculator returns fees accurate enough to inform portfolio decisions, supplier negotiations and design programmes, but it is not intended as a formal fee submission tool. Where a compliance-grade output is required, CIRCPACK delivers it through the SAP Responsible Design and Production partnership or through a direct consulting engagement.
The Recycling Intelligence Platform tracks the underlying legislation, scheme rules and fee tables for the markets the calculator covers. CIRCPACK analysts curate the tables, and the data is cross-checked against the operational evidence the CIRCPACK auditors collect inside the Material Recovery Facilities those schemes feed.
Eco-modulation eligibility is a consulting engagement: a CIRCPACK analyst maps a defined portfolio against scheme tables and quantifies the saving from each proposed design change in a written report. The Fee Calculator is a self-service product that runs continuously on the same rule base. Most customers use both: the consulting engagement to anchor the design programme, the calculator to operate the resulting fee picture day to day.
More than thirty-five markets are currently live in the calculator, spanning the European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, North America, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. The Recycling Intelligence Platform behind the calculator tracks more than one hundred and fifty markets in total. Additional markets are added to the calculator as their scheme structures support self-service modelling.
