About SPI
Data Licensing
How you may use and cite SPI packaging data for free, and when a written licence is needed.
Free use
You may read the trackers, use the calculator, download the CSV files and quote individual rows in your own work, including client reports and publications, provided you cite the source as: Strategic Packaging Insights, name of the tracker, and the date you accessed it.
What needs a licence
A written licence from us is needed to republish a tracker or database in bulk, to resell or redistribute the data, to load it into a product or service offered to others, or to access it automatically at scale.
Source material
Rows quote and link to official and company sources. Those texts remain the property of their publishers and are subject to their own terms. Our licence covers SPI's compilation, structure, summaries and other SPI content, not the source texts themselves.
No warranty
The data is provided as is, for information. It is checked against its sources but may contain errors or be out of date. It is not legal, tax or financial advice.
Ask about a licence
Write to sales@strategicpackaginginsights.com with the dataset, the use you have in mind and the number of users. Licence terms and fees are agreed in writing.
Ask the SPI team
What changes for your packaging next quarter?
Tell us your markets and materials. The SPI team walks you through the rules and buyer commitments that affect them.
Prefer email? Write to sales@strategicpackaginginsights.com.
- Q1
Which packaging rules apply to us in each market we sell in?
We map each market's EPR, tax, ban, recycled-content, labelling and deposit rules against your materials and formats, and show which are in force, adopted or only proposed.
- Q2
What could EPR fees and plastic taxes cost us next year?
We apply published fee tables and tax rates to your tonnages and recycled content, and show the result as scenarios with every rate sourced.
- Q3
Can you tell us when a rule changes?
Yes. The free tracker alerts cover rule changes by country; a monitoring retainer adds monthly notes on what the changes mean for your portfolio.