EPR & Plastic Tax Calculator

Purpose

To size the EPR fees and plastic packaging tax on a packaging portfolio and compare markets, before you talk to a scheme or adviser.

Coverage

11 markets where the scheme or government publishes fees per tonne or per kilogram, or a plastic packaging tax. Markets we could not source are listed below.

Data sources

Each scheme's own published fee table, and the law or government page for each plastic tax. Every rate shows its source, the line we copied and the date we consulted it.

Methodology

Cost is tonnes times the published rate for the category you choose, per material. The UK plastic tax applies to all plastic when recycled content is under 30%; Spain's applies to the non-recycled share only. We do not change or average rates.

Limitations

Not a guaranteed liability and not legal or tax advice. Excludes per-unit fees, exemptions, thresholds and most eco-modulation. UK fees are the government's illustrative figures until final fees are published. Rates have not yet been re-checked by a second analyst.

Access

Free to use. Nothing you enter is stored. For a cost model across your whole portfolio, ask for an EPR cost review.

Not covered yet

• United Kingdom (PackUK): Final Year 2 fees not yet published; the calculator uses the illustrative fees.
• France (Citeo): 2026 tariff not on a public page we could read.
• Spain (Ecoembes): 2026 tariff not found on a public page.
• Germany (dual systems): Prices are set privately by each dual system; there is no public fee table.
• Oregon, US (CAA): 2026 fee schedule not yet retrieved.
• Colorado, US (CAA): No public fee schedule found.
• Ontario, Canada (Blue Box): Fees are issued to registered producers only.
• Portugal (SPV): Steel, PP, EPS, wood and cork rates not yet included.
• Belgium and Luxembourg: A few categories and per-unit fees not yet included.