Free tool · packaging weights
Kilos per material, per country.
Grams per product, times what you shipped.
Before a scheme prices anything, it wants your packaging weight per material, per country, over the period. In a spreadsheet, that is an afternoon of multiplying, one product at a time. Here, you enter each product's packaging once and the units you shipped to each country, and the kilos add up as you type. No account, no email, and nothing leaves this page.
The tool
Enter each product once. The kilos follow.
The tool sends nothing and stores nothing: what you type stays in this tab, and closing it clears it. To keep your work, download your entries as a CSV file, and import it next time to pick up where you left off.
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Your products, and the units you shipped
One line per product reference (SKU), with the units you shipped to each country over the period. A mailer that carries several products is counted per parcel, not per product: give it a line of its own, say “Parcels”, with the number of parcels you sent to each country. Pallets you send to a warehouse work the same way.
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The packaging of one unit
One line per component: the box, the film, the label, the mailer. Weigh one, empty, in grams; decimals are fine. Pick what it is made of, and who throws it away. A component you can pull apart by hand, like a box with a plastic window, goes in as one line per material.
Product Component Material Discarded by Grams per unit Actions - Households
- Opened by consumers at home: the product's own packaging, and the parcel it came in.
- Businesses
- Opened by a business: outer cartons and pallets sent to a warehouse or a shop, and what you ship to business customers.
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What to declare, per country
In kilograms, to the gram. One table per country: materials down, households and businesses across. Check them against your own records before you declare them.
How the count works: each line is your grams per unit times your units, added up exactly, in milligrams. Each figure is rounded once, to the nearest gram, and a total is rounded from its exact sum rather than from the figures above it, so a column can differ from its total by a gram. If your scheme asks for fewer decimals, or for tonnes, round the figure you declare there, once.
What the tool doesn't decide
Your scheme sets the grid. You sign the figures.
The tool multiplies and adds, and it does that exactly. What it cannot know is how your scheme slices packaging, or whether the grams you typed are right.
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Each scheme has its own material grid
This tool counts five materials. The grids we read split them further: Germany's, for one, puts ferrous metal and aluminium apart and gives drinks cartons a line of their own. Name your components clearly and the entries file keeps the names, so you can split a total the way your form asks.
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Each country draws the household line its own way
Most declarations we read keep household and business packaging apart, and some send them to different bodies. Where the line falls is each country's call: some go by where packaging is usually thrown away, some add size limits. Check your scheme's definition before you file.
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You check the weights you declare
A weight typed wrong comes out wrong, to the gram. Weigh a real unit of each component, and keep a note of how you did it: the figures you declare are yours.
Some forms also ask whether packaging is reusable, or how many units you placed on the market: keep those figures beside these. No price comes out of here either: what a scheme charges for these kilos is set by the scheme. See what moves a scheme fee
What we read, on 11 November 2026: Germany's VerpackDG, Spain's Royal Decree 1055/2022, and the published declaration guidance for Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal.
Your entries file
One line per fact. Your spreadsheet can write it.
The entries file is a plain CSV: one line per country, product, packaging line and units figure. Paste your sales export into it, import it here, and the tables fill in. Commas or semicolons, codes or names: the import reads both, and tells you, line by line, what it could not.
| Record | Product | Component | Material | Discarded by | Grams per unit | Country | Units |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| country | DE | ||||||
| product | MUG-01 | ||||||
| packaging | MUG-01 | Box | paper | household | 85 | ||
| units | MUG-01 | DE | 1200 |
Materials: paper, plastic, glass, metal, wood. Discarded by: household or business. Countries: their two-letter code or their English name.
You have the kilos. Now see where you declare them.
Six questions, about five minutes: the scope check maps which country and stream pairs you have to file, and a person reads your answers before any quote.
Free. No card. A person answers.