Producer responsibility for packaging
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.
About the extended producer responsibility (EPR)
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:
- Fill or otherwise use a package (to protect, present or facilitate the handling and transport of an item)
- Bring a packaged item to Sweden
- Manufacture a package in Sweden (service packaging)
- Bring a package to Sweden (service packaging)
- From a country other than Sweden, sell a packaged product or a package to an end user in Sweden (this definition takes effect from 1 January 2023)
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 support you in your producer responsibility
We are here for you!
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.
Changes in the producer responsibility ordinance
Producer responsibility for packaging is currently undergoing major changes which, among other things, mean that:
- The collection responsibility for household packaging passed from the producers to the municipalities on 1 January 2024.
- All households must have access to curbside collection for their packaging by 1 January 2027 at the latest.
- All producers must be affiliated to an approved producer responsibility organisation and through it finance the collection, reception and recycling of all types of material.
- The producer responsibility organization (PRO) is responsible for ensuring reporting to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, financing of the municipal collection and recycling of packaging of all types of materials (paper, plastic, metal, glass, wood and other materials such as textiles, porcelain and other) on behalf of the affiliated producers. The largest PRO is responsible for receiving packaging from businesses.
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)
Your responsibility as a producer
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:
- Contribute to the national targets for material recycling rates and packaging waste by ensuring that the packaging you put on the market is collected and recycled.
- Be affiliated with a producer responsibility organisation and pay a packaging fee that finances collection and recycling.
- Only use packaging that can be recycled or reused.
- Register as a producer with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) before their packaging is introduced into the Swedish market.
- Report the quantity of packaging and volumes introduced into the Swedish market.
- Pay an annual supervision fee to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Packaging reporting
Reporting of packaging volumes
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.
Fees for 2024
Packaging fees and prices
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.
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