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Recyda

Recyda

by Recyda GmbH

Multi-Country EPR Management and Packaging Recyclability at Scale

Updated by Onye Dike on September 5th, 2025
Recyda is an EPR and packaging-sustainability platform for brand owners, retailers, and packaging producers operating across multiple markets. Instead of juggling spreadsheets and country PDFs, teams centralize packaging specs, align on up-to-date rules, and prepare declarations with confidence—avoiding over- or under-reporting. By digitizing country-specific fee rules and plastic-tax criteria, Recyda lets Packaging, R&D, and Finance forecast obligations early, explore eco-modulated savings, and defend numbers in audits. This results in less time lost to manual interpretation and more capacity to improve designs and costs portfolio-wide. It’s a pragmatic way to cut risk while improving packaging outcomes.

Available Extended Producer Responsibility Features

API & ERP integrations
Audit Support
Cost-Driver Analytics
Customizable Dashboards
Data Import/Export
Eco-Modulation
Forecasting & Scenario Modeling
Multi-Country Compliance Tracking
Packaging Data Model (SKU/BOM)
Recyclability & Design Assessment
Scheme-Specific Declarations
Supplier Collaboration Tools

Missing Extended Producer Responsibility Features

Alerts/Notifications
Evidence & Document Retention
Multi-Product Coverage

Pricing

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Available Since

January 2020

Deployment Options

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Good Option For

  • Medium Business (51-250 people)
  • Large Business (250+ people)

Deep dive


Core Features

Recyda is a packaging sustainability workspace built for cross-functional teams that operate across many markets, giving them a structured way to manage EPR compliance decisions at portfolio scale. Its main capabilities include:

  • Unified packaging data & APIs — Consolidate specs in one place, import from ERP/PLM, and use guided data-gap analysis to complete records for declarations.

  • Automated, up-to-date EPR calculations — Apply maintained, country-specific rule sets and digitized requirements— including the UK’s EPR/RAM approach—so obligations are calculated against current national rules and can be re-run quickly as data changes.

  • Forecasting & portfolio visibility — Use dashboards and EPR forecasting to anticipate regulation-driven cost shifts, prioritize high-impact fixes, and plan by material, country, SKU or sales volumes for a portfolio-wide view.

  • Recyclability assessment — Evaluate packs against relevant national guidelines at scale, then compare design alternatives or prototypes to understand improvement levers; portfolio analysis can include sales volumes to gauge overall impact.

  • Plastic taxes & eco-modulation modeling — Quantify exposure to plastic taxes and analyze eco-modulated fee effects, using Recyda’s research on evolving fee trends to guide cost-savvy, design-for-recycling choices.

  • Audit-ready declarations & governance — Prepare for country EPR declarations while tracing cost drivers and opportunities to reduce future fees; the system generates explicit “missing data” lists to support review and assurance.

Closing Insights

Recyda serves varied packaging compliance needs across industries, with prominent clients like DMK Group (diary producer) and adapa Group (packaging manufacturer) using it to meet different packaging requirements.

Momentum and ecosystem breadth have grown recently with Recyda closing a €6.3 million investment to expand internationally and accelerate product development. Coverage now spans over 20 countries for EPR rulesets, with forecasting to preview future obligations. Recyda also complements SAP environments, signaling enterprise-system readiness and listing global enterprises among users. Thought-leadership and enablement include recurrent webinars on new EPR schemes and fee trends, plus reports such as the EPR Overpay Trap that explain how incomplete data drives unnecessary costs.

Together, these developments indicate a platform oriented toward practical compliance gains—auditable governance, forecastable costs, and design choices that can be justified to regulators and customers.


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