Latest Updates

A document that contains all the changes made to the standard.

September 29, 2023

Documents

• Reworked data formats page to include various wored examples

September 22, 2023

Documents

• Added blank Excel workbook to supporting files page
• Added blank csvs for all core schema and all relationship lists to supporting files page and each schema page

September 7, 2023

Documents

• Added example for Recycled Content Claims
• Added example for Recyclability Claims
• Added example for Certification Claims
• Added example for Components
• Added example for Complete Packaging End of Life
• Added example for Complete Packaging

August 11, 2023

Documents

• Added licence page so that users don’t need to navigate to Github
• Improved homepage text regarding licencing
• Improved sidebar navigation
• Added licence to the footer
• Added Relationship list, UUID and Single Source of Truth to Key Concepts page
• Improved reability of Start Here Introduction
• Fixed comestics typo to cosmetics in products types
• Added product type descriptions
• Various other typos

Data Fields

• Harmonised all boolean field descriptions so that they all stated “Answer as: ‘TRUE’ for yes and ‘FALSE’ for no.”

July 14, 2023

Documents

• Removed catalogue from the introduction area
• Improved working about packaging levels
• Reworked introduction
• Improved key concepts page
• Updated data flow
• Improved Complete Packaging End of Life Route Relationship List
• Added Controlled List information page
• Improved the Goverance Page
• Improved the branding to fit with the Open 3P brand guidelines

July 5, 2023

Documents

• Removed banner detailing that the standard is about plastic packaging.
• Added Apache Licence to homepage

July 4, 2023

Documents, Model, Data Fields

• Moved to verion 2.0. Read the release notes on Github.

March 17, 2023

Documents

• General improvements

March 10, 2023

Documents

• Added versioning control so that there can be parrellell versions
• Updated Identifiers page to include information regarding UUID

March 9, 2023

Documents

• Variours changes to files for added function for versioning

February 7, 2023

Model

• Changed component catologue to components

Documents

• Added additional examples
• Updated all data schema to based on changes

Data Fields

• Changed tags to external identifiers

February 3, 2023

Model

• Changed materials catologue to base materials
• Added country to base materials

Documents

• Added examples to base materials

January 20, 2023

Documents

• Added schema images to all Data Specification pages
• Added JSON example to all Data Specification pages
• Added CSV examples
• Added CSV templates

Data Fields

• Fixed Complete Packaging Recycling Disruptor List

January 06, 2023

Documents

• Neaten up tables so that the status column doesn’t go over multiple lines.
• Updated schema image.
• Fixed naming for material and material catalogue pages.
• Added favicon.

December 20, 2022

Model

• separate out materials and material catalogue -> move to the front of the process

Data Fields

• Component Catalogue: add identifier to link materials

November 25, 2022

Documentation

• Add definitions of recycling and reuse
• Bug fixes, typos and tweaks throughout

Data Fields

• Component Catalogue: branding added due to updated epr
• Component Catalogue: loaned added due to epr
• Multipack: outsideTier removed because encoded with tier level

Controlled Lists

• add none option to drs

November 18, 2022

Documents

• Complete Packaging: reformat component catalogue references by replacing independentComponent, previouslyAssembledComponent and allComponent with
• Component Catalogue: created previouslyAssembledComponent as boolean and componentLink for addressing which components are attached when created.
• Upload Schema

November 11, 2022

Documents

• Component Catalogue: Update measurement guidelines.
• Complete Packaging: Update measurement guidelines.

October 21, 2022

Documents

• Complete Packaging: householdWaste turned into required field - representing the updated EPR

Controlled Lists

• Completed Definitions for shapes
• Completed Definitions for opacity
• Completed Definitions for level
• Removed tertiary and replaced with ‘shipment’ and ‘transit’ to reflect updated EPR for level

September 30, 2022

Documents

• Fix typo in Key Concepts, Multipack
• For measurements: Add rounding rule.
• Change volume measurement to millilitres
• For measurements: clarify why component measurements are slightly different to GS1’s complete packaging measurement guidance.

Data Fields

• Complete Packaging: Added weightTolerance to the complete packaging

September 26, 2022

Structural/Model Changes

• Controlled list material function -> material purpose

Data Fields

• Component Catalgoue: Moved level from component catalogue to load catalogue
• Component Catalgoue: Removed importedUK since manufacturedCountry codes the same information
• Component Catalogue: recycledContent description updated - Recycled Content as the minimum allowable recycled content
• Component Catalogue: Added weightTolerance - definition to be updated.
• Component Catalogue Materials: virginMaterial description updated - virigin material as the maximum allowable created for the component
• Load: add the field loadIdentifier to link to the load catalogue

September 9, 2022

Data Fields

• required fields updated
• All:uploaded changed to update
• All: update added
• All: discontinued changed to discontinue
• Component Catalogue Materials: added materialName
• Component Catalgoue: added partOfMultipack
• Multipack: packagingItems replaced completePackaging and component

Structural/Model Changes

• Added downloadable csv files to Supporting Files

September 5, 2022

Structural/Model Changes

• Data Flow created
• Introduction changed to Start Here; Key Concepts moved into Start Here and files updated to reflect these changes

Data Fields

• required fields updated (still in process)

September 2, 2022

Structural/Model Changes

• Removal of Unique Components (fields moved to Component Catalogue or Complete Packaging)
• Addition of Load Catalogue: load split into load and load catalogue

Data Fields

• Component Catalgoue: format split into shape and function
• Component Catalogue: Addition of level, reuseSystem, importedUK, and manufacturedCountry from unique components
• Component Catalogue Materials: materialFunction turned into materialPurpose
• Complete Packaging: Addition of componentContactWithProduct coverted from directContactWithProduct from unique components
• All: tags converted into a dictionary; height, weight, depth, volume, and weight converted into numeric