# Chile sets recovery targets by material, Colombia runs producer plans, and Brazil now prices plastic packaging recovery by region

> Chile's Decree 12 of 2020 sets yearly household targets that take plastic from 11% in 2026 to 45% from 2034, Colombia makes every producer file a recovery plan with ANLA under Resolution 1407 of 2018 with no volume threshold, and Brazil's Decree 12.688 of 21 October 2025 requires 32% recovery of plastic packaging in 2026, rising to 50% in 2040.

Publisher: Strategic Packaging Insights  
Published: 2026-10-26  
Last updated: 2026-10-26  
Page: https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/latin-america-packaging-epr-chile-colombia-brazil/

**Chile's Decree 12 of 2020 sets yearly household targets that take plastic from 11% in 2026 to 45% from 2034, Colombia makes every producer file a recovery plan with ANLA under Resolution 1407 of 2018 with no volume threshold, and Brazil's Decree 12.688 of 21 October 2025 requires 32% recovery of plastic packaging in 2026, rising to 50% in 2040.**

All three laws make the producer of packaged goods responsible for what happens to the pack after use, but each one measures and proves recovery differently. Strategic Packaging Insights (SPI) read the decrees, resolutions and ministry guidance behind each system, and this piece sets the three side by side. Each country's money figures stay in its own unit.

## Executive summary

Three of Latin America's national packaging EPR systems are now all in their operating years. Chile's targets have applied since 16 September 2023, Colombia's producers have filed recovery plans since 2021, and Brazil added a national plastic packaging system by decree on 21 October 2025. A brand selling packaged goods in all three now faces three annual cycles, three proof systems and three penalty scales.

The systems differ in what they count. Chile sets a percentage target for each of five materials, for household and non-household packaging separately, and a target counts as met only when packaging is valorised, not just collected (MMA Chile). Colombia sets targets in tables attached to Resolution 1407 and, since Resolution 803 of 2024, a separate plastics table that must be met at 100% (Exhibit 4). Brazil's new plastic decree sets a national recovery figure split across five regions, plus a recycled-content target for manufacturers and importers (Exhibits 7 and 8).

The level of ambition differs too. On SPI's reading of the published tables, plastic is the lowest household target in Chile in every year, from 3% in 2023 to 45% from 2034 (Exhibit 2). Brazil starts plastic at 32% in 2026 and reaches 50% in 2040 (Exhibit 7). Colombia's plastic table is published only as an image in the consolidated texts, so SPI has not yet confirmed its yearly values.

Proof is where the systems split most. Chile relies on management systems, and the large collective ones, the GRANSIC, carry extra duties for household collection. Colombia relies on producer plans filed through ANLA's VITAL window. Brazil relies on recycling credit certificates built on electronic invoices, which Decree 12.688 accepts as proof for plastic (Art. 12).

For leaders, the practical message is to run three compliance calendars, not one regional plan. Price and staff each in its own currency, keep tonnage registers by material and region, and track three open items: Chile's invalidation procedure on GRANSIC targets, Colombia's plastics table and Brazil's implementing portarias.

## Key findings

1. Chile's household plastic target under Decree 12 of 2020 is 11% in 2026 and 23% in 2030, against 18% and 39% for paper and board, and reaches 45% from 2034 (MMA Chile, Módulo 3).
2. Article 47 of Chile's decree brought the target titles into force 30 months after publication on 16 March 2021, which matches the Ministry's start date of 16 September 2023 (FAOLEX copy of the official text; MMA Chile).
3. Colombia has no volume threshold: ANLA states that no minimum or maximum quantity placed on the market applies, and the Ministry counted 233 plans, 50 collective and 183 individual, by 27 March 2021.
4. Colombia's Law 2232 of 2022 requires 50% collection of all bottles and containers for liquids by 2030, and PET water bottles with 90% national post-consumer recycled material by 2030 (Art. 17).
5. Brazil's Decree 12.688 of 21 October 2025 sets national plastic packaging recovery at 32% in 2026 and 50% in 2040, with the Southeast carrying 15.63 of the 32 points in 2026 (Annex I).
6. Brazil's recycled-content target under the same decree runs from 22% in 2026 to 40% in 2040, mandatory from January 2026 for large companies and July 2026 for small and medium ones (Art. 34; Annex II).
7. **SPI calculation:**  for every 1,000 tonnes of plastic packaging placed on the market, the 2030 obligation is 230 tonnes valorised in Chile's household stream and 370 tonnes recovered in Brazil, before any flexibility rule (Exhibit 10).

## Why Latin America's EPR wave matters now

The timing of the three systems has converged. Chile's Ley 20.920, published on 1 June 2016, lists "d) Envases y embalajes." among its six priority products (Art. 10), and its packaging decree targets have run since September 2023 (BCN Ley Chile; MMA Chile). Colombia's Resolution 1407 has applied since its publication in Diario Oficial 50.673 on 2 August 2018, and Resolution 803 of 2024 folded single-use plastic products into the same plans (Cancillería normograma; Colpensiones normativa). Brazil's Decree 12.688 took effect on its publication in an extra edition of the Diário Oficial da União on 21 October 2025 (Câmara dos Deputados, publicação original).

Each system also has a different legal rank, which matters for how often it changes. Chile's targets sit in a supreme decree under a statute, so a change needs a new decree. Colombia's sit in ministerial resolutions that have been amended twice in six years, by Resolution 1342 of 24 December 2020 and Resolution 803 of 24 June 2024. Brazil's sit in presidential decrees under Article 33 of Lei 12.305, which says the reverse logistics systems "serão estendidos a produtos comercializados em embalagens plásticas, metálicas ou de vidro" (Planalto, Lei 12.305, Art. 33 §1).

SPI analysis

A regional packaging team should treat Colombia as the system most likely to change by resolution, Brazil as the one most likely to add detail by portaria, and Chile as the one whose numbers are already fixed to 2034 but whose accounting rules are under review.

## Chile: Ley REP 20.920 and Decree 12

Chile's framework law defines the producer as whoever first places a priority product on the market, and for packaging that is whoever introduces the packaged good (Ley 20.920, Art. 3). Decree 12 of the Ministry of the Environment, signed on 8 June 2020 and published on 16 March 2021, then sorts packaging into five subcategories: liquid cartons, metal, paper and board, plastic and glass (SPI rule [PR-CL-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/chile/pr-cl-001/)). A composite pack belongs to a subcategory when at least 85% of its mass is that material (DS 12, Art. 6).

Two exemptions shape who pays. Microenterprises under Law 20.416 are outside EPR, and producers placing "menos de 300 kilogramos de envases al año" carry no targets but still report each year through the RETC registry (DS 12, Arts. 7 and 10). The decree's recitals estimate about 2,082,396 tonnes of packaging waste a year, of which "sólo un 27%, aproximadamente, se recicla.", and put the regulation's benefits at 1.19 times its costs (FAOLEX copy of DS 12, recitals 3, 4 and 11).

The household targets rise every year from 2023 (Exhibit 2). In the first four years, a producer may meet up to 50% of a household subcategory's target with an equivalent tonnage from other subcategories, except glass (MMA Chile, Módulo 3).

Non-household packaging, such as transport and commercial packs, carries higher and faster targets for three materials only (Exhibit 3). In the first four years, up to 100% of a non-household target may be met with other subcategories, while liquid cartons and glass are always treated as household (MMA Chile, Módulo 3).

The start date is now settled on the text. Article 47 says the decree applies on publication "con la excepción de los Títulos III y IV, los que entrarán en vigencia en el plazo de 30 meses" from publication, unless that date falls after 1 October (FAOLEX copy of DS 12). Thirty months from 16 March 2021 is 16 September 2023, the date the Ministry gives. The Ministry's page also states that GRANSIC duties apply 36 months from publication, which SPI has not yet reconciled with Article 47.

**The GRANSIC tier.**  A GRANSIC is a collective system of "20 o más productores no relacionados" (DS 12, Art. 2), and it may meet targets with any household packaging waste, not only its members' (Art. 11). In return it must collect selectively from homes and run receiving and storage facilities in communes above a corrected population threshold (MMA Chile). The Ministry's training module shows household collection coverage rising from 10% of homes in 2023 to 80% from 2034 (Módulo 3, Table 4).

**The open accounting question.**  On 31 August 2026 the Ministry admitted a request from the recycling industry association ANIR A.G. to invalidate Interpretation No. 1/2025 of 18 June 2025, which lets a GRANSIC with a municipal collection agreement extend that collection to non-household packaging waste (Resolución Exenta 4.910, Diario Oficial, 7 September 2026). Interested parties had 23 business days from publication to be heard, and SPI has not yet confirmed an outcome.

Chile also has a second packaging law that works through shops rather than schemes. Ley 21.368, published on 13 August 2021, requires disposable plastic bottles to contain at least 15% nationally collected recycled plastic by 2025, 25% by 2030, 50% by 2040 and 60% by 2050, and supermarkets to keep at least 30% returnable formats from 54 months after publication (BCN Ley Chile, transitional articles).

In practice: ReSimple.

ReSimple is a non-profit corporation with legal personality since December 2022 that runs both a household and a non-household system; its non-household plan was approved by Resolución Exenta 0591 of 20 June 2023 (MMA Chile, ReSimple guarantee file). In its filing on guarantees, ReSimple put the second-year household guarantee, which it ties to the cost of meeting targets, at CLP 53,203 million, against a first-year policy of CLP 1,330 million, and it cited a tariff increase of about 2.8 times from year 1 to year 2 under the settings then in force.

In practice: GIRO.

The [Chile tracker page](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/chile/) holds the decree record. A presentation by the Sistema Colectivo de Gestión GIRO, hosted on the Ministry's Santiago Recicla site, reports more than 450 member companies in 2025, up from 198 in 2023 and 325 in 2024, and 68,000 tonnes of packaging placed on the market by members in 2025 (Santiago Recicla, 2025). It reports 11 communes, 6 of them in the Metropolitan Region. SPI has not yet confirmed from the Ministry's approved-systems list how many GRANSIC are authorised.

## Colombia: Resolution 1407, its amendments and Law 2232

Colombia's packaging EPR began as a ministerial resolution. Resolution 1407 of 26 July 2018 is "Por la cual se reglamenta la gestión ambiental de los residuos de envases y empaques" of paper, board, plastic, glass and metal, and it requires producers to formulate, implement and keep current a Plan de Gestión Ambiental de Residuos de Envases y Empaques (Cancillería normograma). Each producer files an individual plan or joins a collective one with ANLA through its VITAL window, and reports each year ([PR-CO-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/colombia/pr-co-001/)).

Resolution 1342 of 24 December 2020, published in Diario Oficial 51.541 on 28 December 2020, amended Articles 2, 3, 8, 10, 15, 16 and 18 and replaced all the annexes (Cancillería normograma). It reset the plan deadline: producers existing on 31 December 2018 had to file "a más tardar el 31 de enero de 2021" (Res. 1342, Art. 3). Its recitals record that "del orden del 39% corresponden a residuos principalmente de papel, cartón, vidrio, plástico y metal" in the waste stream it describes.

Resolution 803 of 24 June 2024, published in Diario Oficial 52.799 on 26 June 2024, made the larger change (Exhibit 4). It brought producers and importers of single-use plastic products into the plans, added a separate literal b) with plastics targets to Article 9, and set the base year as "el tercer año anterior al periodo de evaluación" (Res. 803, Arts. 7 and 23). Paper, board, glass and metal recovery may not fall below 70% of their targets, and plastics "no podrá ser menor al 100% de las metas" (Art. 12, para. 2).

The yearly percentages in Resolution 1407's Tabla 1 and Resolution 803's Tabla 1-a are images in both consolidated texts, so SPI has not yet confirmed the full series. ANLA's guidance confirms one point on the curve: for existing producers, the second target, for 2022, is 12% of the weight placed on the market in 2019 (ANLA). The city coverage schedule is in the text: from 2023 producers add "2023 Cúcuta, 2024 Pasto, 2025 Riohacha, 2026 Florencia, 2027 Yopal y 2028 Quibdó" (Res. 1407, Art. 9).

Collective plans have one flexibility that Chile and Brazil lack. Under Article 10, as amended in 2020, a collective plan can add a multicriteria score of at least 110 points, but "No se podrá aplicar la evaluación multicriterio para porcentajes de aprovechamiento menores al 70% de la meta cuantitativa." (Cancillería normograma).

Law 2232 of 2022 sits on top as a statute passed by Congress ([PR-CO-002](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/colombia/pr-co-002/)). Article 6 applies the ban on items 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 11 of Article 5, such as checkout bags, straws and cotton bud stems, "al término de los dos años", and on items 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 14, including takeaway food containers, tableware and fresh-produce packaging, "al término de ocho años". Article 35 ties the start to promulgation on 7 July 2022, so the second wave falls in July 2030. Article 17 sets the bottle goals (Exhibit 5).

Plastic packaging also carries a tax. Article 51 of Law 2277 of 2022 sets "cero coma cero cero cero cero cinco (0,00005) UVT por cada un (1) gramo" of single-use plastic packaging, and the Constitutional Court upheld the tax in Judgment C-506 of 22 November 2023, striking only a phrase in Article 50 (Ámbito Jurídico copy of the judgment). **SPI calculation:**  that is 50 UVT per tonne of packaging (0.00005 x 1,000,000 grams). SPI has not converted UVT into pesos here; the [plastic packaging taxes piece](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/insights/plastic-packaging-taxes-2026/) covers taxes by country.

In practice: Colombia's collective plans.

When the first filing round under Resolution 1342 closed on 31 March 2021, the Ministry had received 233 plans, 50 collective and 183 individual, and said "La meta para este año es aprovechar más de 200.000 toneladas de envases y empaques" (MinAmbiente, 27 March 2021). SPI has not found a later official count or a public register of collective plan operators. The [Colombia tracker page](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/colombia/) holds both Colombian rules.

## Brazil: PNRS, recycling credits and the 2025 plastic decree

Brazil's anchor is Lei 12.305 of 2 August 2010, the National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS). Its Article 33 says manufacturers, importers, distributors and traders "São obrigados a estruturar e implementar sistemas de logística reversa", and §1 extends that duty to goods sold in plastic, metal or glass packaging (Planalto). For a decade the packaging-in-general system ran on a 2015 sectoral agreement with a 22% recovery target (MMA Comunicado 001/2024).

Decree 11.413 of 13 February 2023 added the proof instruments ([PR-BR-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/brazil/pr-br-001/)). It creates the Certificado de Crédito de Reciclagem de Logística Reversa (CCRLR), the Certificado de Estruturação e Reciclagem de Embalagens em Geral (CERE) and the Certificado de Crédito de Massa Futura (Art. 5, II to IV), revoked Decree 11.044 of 2022 and entered into force on 14 April 2023 (Arts. 33 and 34). Their use has "caráter voluntário" (Art. 2 §2), and only electronic invoices from "o ano fiscal corrente ou no ano fiscal imediatamente anterior" count (Art. 15 §4). Decree 12.451 of 6 May 2025 then barred all three certificates for operations linked to imported solid waste (Art. 5).

Decree 12.688 of 21 October 2025 is the 2024 to 2026 change that matters most for packaging. It regulates Articles 32 §1 and 33 §1 of Lei 12.305 and creates a national reverse logistics system for plastic packaging, covering "as embalagens primárias, secundárias e terciárias e os produtos de plástico equiparáveis" such as plates, cups and cutlery (Art. 1 §1). It excludes plastic packaging already in the pesticide or lubricant systems, packaging under Decrees 10.240 and 10.388 of 2020, and mixed packaging containing paper or board (Art. 2).

The targets are in two annexes (Exhibits 7 and 8). Annex I sets recovery as a percentage of plastic packaging placed on the market by mass, applied to the previous fiscal year's quantity and allocated by region (Art. 31). Annex II sets recycled content for manufacturers and importers, which does not apply to packaging under specific regulation, including food packaging (Art. 33 §3). Both indices must be met together (Art. 38).

The regional split is the decree's distinctive feature (Exhibit 8). In 2026 the Southeast carries 15.63 of the 32 national points, or 48.8%, and the North 2.15 points, and by 2040 the Southeast carries 24.42 of 50 (Annex I). The five published regional figures add to 31.99 in 2026 and to 50.00 in 2040.

Decree 12.688 connects to the certificates rather than replacing them. Its Article 12 accepts the CCRLR, the CERE and the future mass certificate as proof for participants in the collective model, and management entities file the prior year's results by 30 July each year (Art. 6 §2). Importers must join a collective system or run an individual one as a condition of importing and selling (Art. 20). Recycled content becomes mandatory from "janeiro de 2026, para as empresas de grande porte" and "julho de 2026, para as empresas de pequeno e de médio porte." (Art. 34). Collection points must be installed within four years of publication, one per municipality up to 10,000 inhabitants and one per 10,000 inhabitants above that (Art. 36).

Returnables reduce the target. For every 5% of returnable packaging collected, the recovery target falls by 1 percentage point, up to a reduction of 50% (Art. 32 §4), and surpluses or shortfalls carry over to the next year (Art. 35).

The implementing detail is still arriving. The Ministry consulted on the recyclability index (IREP) under Article 43 from 28 January to 11 February 2026 and again from 3 to 17 March 2026, receiving 590 contributions, and the consultation page refers only to a "proposta de portaria" (SINIR). Its April 2026 webinar presented draft portarias on the Sisrev-BR platform, the IREP and the removal of sorting rejects from cooperatives (SINIR, 16 April 2026). SPI has not yet confirmed in the Diário Oficial a final Sisrev-BR portaria, which a legal publisher lists as Portaria MMA 1.778 of 16 September 2026.

In practice: the packaging-in-general system.

The Ministry reports that 2022 results, filed in July 2023, showed a "resultado global de recuperação fosse de 25% (985,7 mil toneladas recuperadas no ano)", above the 22% floor; it applied 22% to the 2023 performance year and 30% to 2024, in line with the National Solid Waste Plan, with 2024 regional floors of 3% in the North and 12% in the Southeast (MMA Comunicado 001/2024). São Paulo applied 23.5% under Decisão de Diretoria 127/2021/P of 16 December 2021. The [Brazil tracker page](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/brazil/) holds the certificate decree record.

## A framework: four design choices that decide the compliance task

Reading the three systems together, SPI groups the differences into four design choices (Exhibit 9). Each choice tells a compliance team what data it must hold and who it depends on. The framework is drawn from the texts above and SPI's tracker records, and it describes design, not performance.

**Choice 1, what is targeted.**  Chile and Brazil publish every yearly figure in text or annex, while Colombia's are images. A team can model Chile and Brazil today; for Colombia it needs the image tables or its plan's approval file.

**Choice 2, the base.**  Brazil uses last year's sales, Colombia the third year back, and Chile the tonnage placed on the market. The data lag differs by two years between Brazil and Colombia, so a fast-growing brand faces a lower effective burden in Colombia.

**Choice 3, the proof.**  Brazil's proof is a tradable document resting on invoices, Colombia's is a filed report backed by transformer certificates, and Chile's is a system's own valorisation record. **SPI analysis:**  Brazil is the only one of the three where a producer can buy proof from a market, which makes certificate quality the main risk.

**Choice 4, flexibility.**  Chile's cross-material allowance ends after the fourth year, 2026 on the Ministry's count, and from 2027 each material stands alone. On SPI's reading, that is the main scheduled step in the three systems for the coming year.

## Scenarios: the tonnage behind each target

Money is not comparable across the three countries, but tonnage is. SPI applied each published percentage to the same 1,000 tonnes of plastic packaging placed on the market (Exhibit 10). The result is a recovery obligation in tonnes, not a cost.

**SPI calculation:**  Chile's household plastic obligation more than doubles between 2026 and 2030, from 110 to 230 tonnes per 1,000, while Brazil's rises by 50 tonnes, from 320 to 370. In 2026 a Chilean household producer may still cover up to 55 of its 110 plastic tonnes with other materials except glass; from 2027 all 140 tonnes must be plastic. By 2040 Brazil reaches 500 tonnes per 1,000, against Chile's 450 from 2034.

**SPI calculation:**  in Brazil the same 1,000 tonnes also carry a recycled-content duty for a manufacturer or importer: 220 tonnes of recycled plastic in 2026 and 300 in 2030, on Annex II, unless the packaging falls under specific regulation such as food contact (Art. 33 §3).

## Penalties stay in each country's own unit

All three systems index fines to a local unit, so the peso or real amount moves each year (Exhibit 11). SPI does not convert or rank them.

Chile's law states "Las infracciones graves podrán ser objeto de multa de hasta cinco mil unidades tributarias anuales." (Ley 20.920, Art. 40), and missing targets is a serious infraction. Colombia's Resolution 1407 has no sanctions article of its own; ANLA states that late or missing plans and missed targets "serán valorados a la luz de la Ley 1333 del 21 de julio de 2009". In Brazil, Decree 11.413 sets no fines, so the exposure sits with the underlying duty under Decree 6.514 ([PR-BR-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/brazil/pr-br-001/)). SPI knows of no published sanction under any of the three packaging instruments at 24 October 2026.

## Industry reaction

> "Las metas REP de Envases y Embalajes comienzan a regir a partir del 16 de Septiembre de 2023."

In English: "The REP targets for Packaging start to apply from 16 September 2023."

***Ministerio del Medio Ambiente (Chile)** , environment ministry, [Envases y Embalajes page](https://economiacircular.mma.gob.cl/envases-y-embalajes/), consulted 24 October 2026*

The same page adds that household and non-household collection targets are met only at valorisation, which is why a collection contract alone does not discharge a Chilean target.

> "No se establece un mínimo o máximo de envases y empaques puestos en el mercado"

In English: "No minimum or maximum quantity of packaging placed on the market is set"

***ANLA** , national environmental licensing authority, [packaging plan guidance](https://www.anla.gov.co/01_anla/permiso-y-autorizacion-plan-gestion-ambiental-residuos-envaces-y-empaques), consulted 24 October 2026*

ANLA's guidance also excludes hazardous-waste packaging, wood and natural textile packaging other than paper and board, and primary packaging of medicines.

> "Destaca-se que a meta de 22% do Acordo Setorial é mínima"

In English: "It should be stressed that the Sectoral Agreement's 22% target is a minimum"

***Ministério do Meio Ambiente e Mudança do Clima** , Department of Waste Management, [Comunicado 001/2024-DGR/MMA](https://portal-api.sinir.gov.br/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Comunicado-1_2024_DGR-22.05.2024-Defeso.pdf), 21 May 2024*

The Ministry used that position to apply 30% to 2024, and Decree 12.688 now sets 32% for plastic packaging in 2026.

## What the data does not yet show

**Colombia's plastic numbers.**  Tabla 1 of Resolution 1407 and Tabla 1-a of Resolution 803 are images in the consolidated texts. Apart from ANLA's 12% figure for 2022, SPI has not yet confirmed the yearly percentages.

**Chile's system list.**  The Ministry publishes approved management systems as a spreadsheet updated on 6 November 2025, which SPI has not yet read, so this piece names only ReSimple and GIRO from Ministry-hosted documents.

**Brazil's portarias.**  The IREP, Sisrev-BR and rejects rules were consultation drafts at the April 2026 webinar. The 90-day deadlines in Decree 12.688 fell on 19 January 2026 by SPI's count, and SPI has not yet confirmed which final portarias are in force.

**Recovery results.**  None of the three countries publishes a national, material-level recovery series against these targets on the pages SPI consulted. Brazil's latest national figure in this piece is the 25% for 2022.

## What leaders should do now

1. **Regional packaging and compliance leads, by 31 December 2026:**  build a tonnage register for each country by material, household or non-household use and, for Brazil, region, because each target is set on those cuts.
2. **Chile country teams, before 1 January 2027:**  plan plastic recovery to stand alone, since the cross-material allowance covers only the first four years, and confirm your management system for the year by its 1 January start.
3. **Colombia country teams, before the March or April 2027 report:**  obtain the Tabla 1-a plastics figures from your plan's approval file or from ANLA, and check that plastics reach 100% of target, since the 70% multicriteria route does not apply to them.
4. **Brazil procurement, now:**  ask each management entity to show that certificates rest on current or prior-year invoices, include no imported waste and give priority to waste-picker invoices, as Decrees 11.413 and 12.451 require.
5. **Brazil packaging development, for July 2026 onwards:**  document recycled content by SKU against the 22% for 2026 and 24% for 2027, with food-contact packs separated out under Article 33 §3.
6. **Finance, at the 2027 budget:**  hold EPR cost by country in CLP, COP and BRL separately, and add Colombia's single-use plastic packaging tax at 50 UVT per tonne as its own line.
7. **Legal and public affairs, by the end of 2026:**  track the outcome of Chile's invalidation procedure on Interpretation No. 1/2025 and Brazil's final portarias, and check with counsel how each affects your contracts.

## Questions for your board

- How many tonnes of plastic packaging do we place on the market in Chile, Colombia and Brazil, and on which base year does each country count them?
- Are we on track for Chile's 2027 targets once the cross-material allowance ends?
- Do we know our Colombian plan's plastics target, and are we at 100% of it?
- How much of our Brazilian proof is bought certificates, and who checks their invoices?
- Can our Brazilian packs show 22% recycled content in 2026, and which are exempt as food contact?
- Who in the business owns each country's annual report date?

## What to watch

- **Late 2026:**  any Ministry ruling on Chile's Interpretation No. 1/2025; the 23-business-day hearing period that opened on 7 September 2026 has run by SPI's count (Resolución Exenta 4.910; [PR-CL-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/chile/pr-cl-001/)).
- **1 Jan 2027:**  Chile's household and non-household targets step up, with plastic at 14% and 38%, and the four-year cross-material allowance no longer applies (DS 12).
- **Mar to Apr 2027:**  Colombian plan reports on 2026 are due, by the fourth digit of each file number (ANLA; [PR-CO-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/colombia/pr-co-001/)).
- **30 Jul 2027:**  Brazilian management entities file 2026 results under Decree 11.413 and Decree 12.688 ([PR-BR-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/brazil/pr-br-001/)).
- **21 Oct 2029:**  Brazil's four-year deadline for plastic packaging collection points (Decree 12.688, Art. 36).
- **Jul 2030:**  Colombia's second wave of single-use plastic bans applies, and liquid containers must reach 50% collection ([PR-CO-002](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/colombia/pr-co-002/)).

## Methodology

- **Data used:**  SPI tracker rules [PR-CL-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/chile/pr-cl-001/), [PR-CO-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/colombia/pr-co-001/), [PR-CO-002](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/colombia/pr-co-002/) and [PR-BR-001](https://www.strategicpackaginginsights.com/data/packaging-regulation-tracker/brazil/pr-br-001/) and SPI jurisdiction notes for Chile, Colombia and Brazil (14 October 2026), brought up to date from official texts and ministry pages consulted on 24 October 2026.
- **Counting rules:**  targets as published, in percent of each system's own base; tonnage scenarios apply those percentages to 1,000 tonnes and involve no money; fines stay in their own unit (UTA, UTM, SMMLV, BRL) and are never converted or compared.
- **Framework:**  the four design choices in Exhibit 9 are an SPI device for comparing design, not a ranking.
- **Cut-off:**  24 October 2026.
- **Limitations:**  Colombia's target tables are images; Chile's tables come from the Ministry's training module because the decree's own tables are images; Brazil's portarias were drafts at the latest official document SPI read. This is business analysis, not legal advice; check with counsel where it applies.

## Sources

1. Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional (Ley Chile), Ley 20.920 de 2016, [https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/Consulta/obtxml?opt=7&amp](https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/Consulta/obtxml?opt=7&amp);idNorma=1090894, consulted 2026-10-24.
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