A variety of products concerned
Since being adopted in 2020, the French Anti-Waste Act for a Circular Economy (‘AGEC Law’) has expanded the scope of the EPR schemes by incorporating new products. Its goal is to create some ten new schemes by the end of 2025. These include toys, sporting and recreational goods, and building construction products and materials.
The building products scheme, created in 2022, is making a large contribution to the increasing tonnage of products placed on the market and covered by the EPR principle.
19
EPR schemes
put in place
7 more since 2020
204,1 Mt
placed on the market
within the scope of EPR
Données 2024
Tailored arrangements
Any producer placing products subject to extended producer responsibility (EPR) on the market must meet its obligations either by doing so alone via an accredited individual compliance scheme, or by joining a collective system: an accredited producer responsibility organisation (PRO). The vast majority of producers opt to join an accredited PRO (other than in the recently created vehicles EPR scheme).
A given scheme may have several accredited PROs, covering all or some of its product categories. A given PRO may also be accredited for several schemes. The PRO Écomaison, for instance, is accredited for the toys and furnishing elements schemes, as well as for two product categories in the home improvement and gardening scheme, and one category in the building products scheme.
26
accredited PROs
of which 6 across several schemes
10 more since 2020
24
accredited individual compliance schemes
for electrical and electronic
equipment (EEE) and vehicles
Données 2026
Strong results
Reuse and repair
The AGEC Law expanded the scope of EPR, which is no longer limited to waste management but now covers the entire product life cycle. Most of the schemes hence now also include reuse and repair targets. To encourage repair, a dedicated fund has been set up in some of them. It aims to increase the number of products repaired by approved repairers.
499 kt
reused
in 2024 (products and packaging)
371 000
products repaired
of wich 344 000 with support from the fund
in 2023
3 600
approved repairers
2023 data
Waste recovery
Material recycling is progressing in most of the schemes thanks to increasingly ambitious regulatory targets. Nearly 548,000 tonnes of waste was recovered for energy in 2024. It will take longer to assess their impact in terms of performance in the new schemes such as building products, which has been gradually rolled out since 2023
19,4 Mt
collected*
14,7 Mt
recycled*
*Provisional 2024 data (incomplete reporting by the PROs).
More and more member producers
The sharp increase in the number of companies putting products on the market may be explained by the growth in product sales via e-commerce and online sales platforms, particularly in the household packaging and graphic papers scheme (accounting for 85% of the increase in 2023).
It should be noted that a given product can fall under several EPR schemes. A smartphone, for instance, may be concerned by the electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) scheme, the household packaging and graphic papers (EMPAP) scheme, and the batteries and accumulators (PA) scheme. In this case, the producer must join all the schemes concerned by its products (which often involves joining several PROs).
184 000
member producers
of which 149,000 in one scheme and 35,000 in several schemes
+54 000 more than in 2022
Donnée 2023
An economic model that drives the green transition
A large proportion of the EPR fees is used to fund the collection and treatment of waste, notably through substantial support for local authorities in schemes where the public waste management service plays a leading role.
The remainder is used to develop prevention, reuse and recycling solutions, and to raise consumers’ awareness of good sorting practices and ways to care for the environment more generally.
2,8 Md €
in EPR fees
collected by the PROs
1,2 Md €
paid to local authorities
by the PROs
Données 2024
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Report on the key developments and figures for 2023
Discover the key developments for 2023 in the EPR schemes and detailed key figures for each one in the ‘EPR Report’.
Data by scheme
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Reuse data
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