EPR target calculator for plastic packaging

Enter what you placed on the market in the last two financial years. The calculator applies the formula and the tables of the Guidelines on Extended Producer Responsibility for plastic packaging (Schedule II to the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016) and shows, per category, your EPR target, the minimum you must recycle, the most that may go to end of life disposal, and your recycled content and reuse obligations.

Your figures

You are a

Producer (you make plastic packaging)Importer (of plastic packaging, or of products in plastic packaging)Brand owner (your products are sold in plastic packaging)

If you are more than one, you are registered separately for each (paragraph 6.5): work out each one on its own.

Obligation year (financial year)

Your figures are in

tonneskilograms

Categories you use

Category I: rigid plastic packagingCategory II: flexible plastic packaging, sheets, covers, carry bags, sachets, pouchesCategory III: multilayered packaging (plastic with at least one non-plastic layer)Category IV: compostable plastic sheets, carry bags and commodities

Category V (biodegradable plastics) has no target table in the Guidelines: its manufacturers fulfil EPR through certificates generated by local authorities (paragraphs 15.4 and 15.5), so it is not calculated here.

The rules the calculator applies

Schedule II to the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, as amended up to G.S.R. 237(E), 31 March 2026. Read on 30 October 2026.

Minimum recycling, % of the EPR target (paragraphs 7.2(b), 7.3(b), 7.4(c))
Category	2024-25	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28 onwards
I	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %
II	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %
III	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %
IV	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %

Category IV: recycling means industrial composting.

Recycled plastic content, % of the packaging made, imported or used in the year (paragraphs 7.2(d), 7.3(d), 7.4(e))
Category	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29 onwards
I	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %
II	10 %	10 %	20 %	20 %
III	5 %	5 %	10 %	10 %

Category III: on the weight of the plastic layers only.

Minimum reuse of Category I rigid packaging, % of that packaging in products sold (paragraph 7.4(b))
Category	2025-26	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29 onwards
At least 0.9 but less than 4.9 litres or kg	10 %	15 %	20 %	25 %
4.9 litres or kg or more, drinking water	70 %	75 %	80 %	85 %
4.9 litres or kg or more, other products	10 %	10 %	15 %	15 %

End of life disposal means energy recovery: co-processing in cement, steel and similar industries, waste to energy, waste to oil and road construction. Turning plastic waste into new plastic or feedstock chemicals counts as recycling (rule 3(ga), G.S.R. 237(E)).
No recycled content or reuse is due where a law or a mandatory Indian Standard does not permit it (for example FSSAI, CDSCO or Central Insecticides Board rules); cite it in your annual return. A food-contact shortfall of 2025-26 may be carried forward over up to three years from 2026-27, at least one third each year.
Importers: recycled plastic already in imported material does not count. Meet the obligation with certificates bought from producers, importers or brand owners who used more than their share (paragraph 7.3(d)).
Not covered: manufacturers and importers of plastic raw material, whose target is the raw material they sold to micro and small producers (paragraph 7.8), and environmental compensation.

A calculation from the published rules, not legal advice and not a CPCB service. Your registration and the portal's figures decide. Vedacta is not affiliated with CPCB or the Government of India.