How CIRCPACK works around the world.

71 countries on the Recycling Intelligence Platform. Six European offices on the ground. The map below is how brand owners use both together.

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Every country on the platform is staffed by Veolia operators inside the local collection, sorting, and reprocessing facilities. The data they push back is structured into the same recyclability classes the EU PPWR Article 6 review uses, so a portfolio scan that started in Brussels can be ground-truthed in Madrid the following week.

Brand owners typically combine the platform with an on-the-ground operational sorting test when a single market needs a defensible answer for a regulator or a retailer. The combination — live country data plus a fresh MRF run — is what underpins our 25+ years of expertise.

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Platform case studies

Detailed case studies from CIRCPACK's Fortune 500 customers are being prepared for publication. The Recycling Intelligence Platform is used by 35+ Fortune 500 brand owners as a working reference in their packaging portfolio decisions.

Country coverage

The Recycling Intelligence Platform covers >85% of the world's population across 150 markets, including individual states in the United States and provinces in Canada.

Platform FAQ

The questions brand owners, packaging teams and consulting buyers most often ask about the Recycling Intelligence Platform before they engage. For questions not answered here, a CIRCPACK consultant takes the brief.

Platform methodology

The Recycling Intelligence Platform turns the diversity of global recycling systems into a single comparable framework. Every market the Platform covers is assessed against the same recycling-system model, against the same indicator structure, and against the same review and validation cycle. The Platform's comparability rests on that consistency.

Recycling rates

Recycling rates are reported inconsistently and incompletely across most of the world. Even within a single country in a single year, the numbers published by different sources can differ materially, and cross-market comparison is harder still. The Recycling Intelligence Platform addresses this with a recycling-rate dataset that pairs the public reporting with CIRCPACK's operational view of the recycling infrastructure in each market.

Regional overviews

Regional overviews aggregate the country-level data on the Recycling Intelligence Platform into the cross-market views brand owners need when sizing portfolio decisions. The European Union, the United Kingdom and EFTA, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East and Africa are each documented as a region as well as country by country.

Additional resources

A starter set of pages on the CIRCPACK site that sit alongside the Recycling Intelligence Platform: the country coverage list, the regional overview structure, the methodology behind the indicators, and the broader pillar pages that contextualise what shows up in each country report. The Platform itself carries further accountholder resources including the glossary, the design-for-recycling guidelines, the vlog updates, and the platform-internal methodology documentation.