If your company brings packaging into the Swedish market, by law, you are an obligated packaging producer and have a financial responsibility to ensure that the packaging is collected and recycled. The main purpose of producer responsibility is to reduce littering, reduce the amount of waste and to ensure that the waste that does occur is recycled and used for new products.
The main purpose of the producer responsibility is to reduce littering, reduce the amount of waste and to ensure that the waste that does occur is recycled and used for new products.
Your company has producer responsibility if you:
Packaging that is exported to other countries (both within and outside the EU), you are not required to report.
To avoid a situation where all stores, catering services, restaurants, pizzerias, hot dog stands, pastry shops, laundries, growers, berry pickers, egg producers, etc. must become affiliated with us because they provide point-of-sale packaging, Näringslivets Producentansvar charges a fee for those who produce or import the actual packaging.
We give you support when reporting packaging volumes and with other questions. We help you with your report to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. We advise and train you in innovative packaging design and climate-smart choices for more recyclable packaging.
Producer responsibility for packaging is currently undergoing major changes which, among other things, mean that:
The purpose of the new ordinnce is to increase the recycling of packaging and to reduce the amount of packaging and packaging waste. In the ordinance, there are also defined goals for material recycling rates up to and beyond the year 2030, as well as new goals linked to reuse and reduced littering, as well as the amount of recycled plastic in packaging.
Read the ordinance for packaging producer responsibility (In Swedish only)
While producers currently have a responsibility to contribute to the national targets, the new packaging ordinance clarifies that the only packaging producers may use must be reusable or recyclable. The ordinance also prescribes that as of January 1st, 2024, producers must contract or provide an approved Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO), for example Näringslivets Producentansvar, to manage their packaging.
In short, the new packaging ordinance means that producers have a responsibility to:
As an affiliated producer to Näringslivets Producentansvar, we help you with your packaging reporting and submit your report to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. In our customer portal you will find flexible and efficient processes for reporting.
Näringslivets Producentansvar is completely transparent with our fees and what affects them. Our packaging fees are available to everyone here on the web.
If you have any questions regarding the fees, you are most welcome to contact us.
Your company has producer responsibility if you:
The fees are based on the packaging’s net cost for collection and processing. The fees are used to reimburse the municipalities for their costs for the collection of packaging waste from households and co-located businesses that have chosen municipal collection, as well as for the municipality’s information efforts in accordance with the packaging regulation. The principle is that each type of material should bear its own costs, with no cross-subsidization between the categories. All types of materials are handled on a competitive-neutral basis. Näringslivets Producentansvar does not distribute any profit to its owners – what you pay is used to increase recycling in Sweden.
Näringslivets Producentansvar is a producer responsibility organisation that helps you as a producer of packaging to take your producer responsibility.
The owners of Näringslivets Producentansvar are the five industry organisations DLF Sweden, Swedish Food Retailers Federation, Swedish Trade Federation, the Swedish Brewers Association and the Spirit and Wine Suppliers Association.