Challenges, opportunities and pending issues in the implementation of the Royal Decree on Packaging

A few months before the two-year anniversary of its approval, the Royal Decree on Packaging (RD 1055/2022) continues to represent a turning point in Spanish environmental legislation, especially due to the reinforcement it introduced in the extended producer responsibility regime and its extension to all packaging, including commercial and industrial packaging.
A regulation that was born with the commendable purpose of moving towards a more circular economy by preventing the generation of packaging waste and promoting actions and measures that promote reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery in accordance with the principle of hierarchy.
With a view to these ends, the royal decree introduced a wide range of prevention objectives for the 2030 horizon, such as reducing the weight of packaging waste by 15% compared to that generated in 2010, ensuring that by then all packaging placed on the market was recyclable and, if possible, reusable, or reduce the number of single-use plastic bottles for beverages by 20%.

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