Enter your figures once. The kit works out each category's EPR target with the calculator's rules, sets your certificates, recycled plastic and reuse against it, and writes the worksheet, the quantity register and a note for your auditor, line by line with the paragraph of Schedule II each figure comes from.
₹1,499 per entity and financial year, once. Everything stays in your browser.
What you get
Annual return worksheet: the registered entity, then per category the EPR target, minimum recycling, end of life disposal allowed, certificates counted and not counted, shortfall or surplus, recycled content and reuse, exports left out under rule 2(3), paragraph 15A certificates as recorded, and a signature block.
Quantity register: the two years' figures behind the target, as you entered them, and the export orders.
Note for the auditor: how each figure was worked out, what the kit does not work out (environmental compensation, earlier years' carry forward), and the records to keep.
Each as a page to print or open in Word, and as text. The documents are in English, as the portal is.
CPCB has not yet opened annual return filing for 2025-26 on the Common EPR Portal, so its screens are not known: the worksheet follows the rule paragraphs, and the portal may group the same figures differently. Due date for producers, importers and brand owners: 31 December 2026.
Sample: the start of a worksheet
Written for a made-up brand owner with Category I packaging. Yours is written from your own figures after the purchase.
Plastic EPR annual return worksheet, 2025-26
Check each figure against your records, then enter them on the Common EPR Portal (epr.cpcb.gov.in) when CPCB opens annual return filing. Keep the signed worksheet with the return.
Annual return for the financial year 2025-26, under paragraph 10.6 of Schedule II to the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 (Guidelines on Extended Producer Responsibility for plastic packaging), as amended up to G.S.R. 237(E), 31 March 2026.
1. The registered entity
Registration details as paragraph 6.6 lists them (G.S.R. 318(E) of 27 April 2023). Aadhaar is optional there and is not asked for here.
Name
Example Foods Pvt Ltd
Registered as
Brand owner (paragraph 4)
EPR registration number
[TO COMPLETE: registration number on the EPR portal]
Registered address
Plot 1, Example Industrial Area, Pune 411001
PAN
[TO COMPLETE: PAN]
GSTIN
[TO COMPLETE: GSTIN]
CIN (companies)
[TO COMPLETE: CIN, or 'not a company']
Authorised person
A. Example
Designation
Director
PAN of the authorised person
[TO COMPLETE: PAN of the authorised person]
Email
[TO COMPLETE: email]
Phone
[TO COMPLETE: phone]
2. Category I: rigid plastic packaging
2025-26. Q is the average of 2023-24 and 2024-25 (quantity register).
Registered recyclers the recycled plastic came from (paragraph 10.6): Example Recyclers Pvt Ltd, registration on the EPR portal
Line
Paragraph
Quantity
EPR target: eligible quantity Q, 100 %
7.4(a)
112.000 t
Minimum recycling (60 % of the target)
7.4(c)
67.200 t
End of life disposal, at most
7.4(c)
44.800 t
Certificates for recycling
10.6, 15.1
70.000 t
Certificates for end of life disposal
10.6, 15.1
50.000 t
counted, up to the most allowed
7.4(c)
44.800 t
not counted, above the most allowed
7.4(c)
5.200 t
Shortfall in recycling
7.4(c)
0.000 t
Shortfall against the EPR target
7.4(a)
0.000 t
Certificates beyond the target (surplus)
8
2.800 t
Recycled plastic to use (30 % of the year's packaging)
7.4(e)
33.000 t
Recycled plastic used
7.4(e)
30.000 t
Recycled content shortfall
7.4(e)
3.000 t
Format: Not a CPCB format: the Common EPR Portal's annual return screens were not published when this kit was written. Laid out by the paragraphs of Schedule II; the portal may group the same figures differently.
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The annual return kit: one entity, one financial year
The worksheet, the quantity register and the note for your auditor, from your figures
Write again and download again for the same entity and year whenever a figure changes
₹1,499 once
Including any tax due.
To check the purchase, only the payment ID and the email address you paid with go to our server; your figures stay in this browser. Both are kept in this browser so you need not type them again.
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A worksheet from the published rules and your figures, not legal advice and not a CPCB service. The portal's figures and your registration decide.