Manufacturers and retailers of consumer packaging have a crucial part to play towards enabling an efficient materials recycling system operating at the desired future high levels of output and quality. The availability of recycled materials for use back into new packaging needs to increase in order to meet the projected ‘near future’ demands for high-quality recyclates. EuRIC therefore calls for the following key factors to be incorporated as essential requirements for packaging products placed on the market and to serve as a basis for eco-modulation of fees paid by producers to EPR systems.