Single Use Plastic

What it means for your business

Producer responsibility for packaging

What it means for your business

What is producer responsibility for Single Use Plastic (SUP)?

Single use plastic products are wholly or partly made of plastic and intended to be used once. They are therefore not designed or produced to be returned and reused again and again for the same purpose.

The following categories of single use plastic products are covered by producer responsibility for SUP:

1. Food containers (eg for salad and take-away containers)
2. Wrapping bags and foils (eg for candies and wraps/sandwiches)
3. Beverage containers (up to 3 ltr, inclusive cartons)
4. Drinking cups (eg coffee cups and smoothie cups)
5. Lightweight plastic carrier bags (eg for fruit and vegetables)
6. Wet wipes (for personal care and household)
7. Balloons
8. Filters for tobacco products (cigarettes, snuff (nicotin pouches not in scope)

If you are the first to market single use plastic products or filled single use plastic products on the Danish market, you basically have the producer responsibility for your single use plastic.

If you are covered by producer responsibility for single use plastic products, you must register in the producer responsibility register. Registration must take place for current producers before 17 December 2024.

The Purpose with the extended producer responsibility is to

Reduce the amount of packaging

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Increase real reuse and recycling of packaging materials

Force companies to re-design to more circular packaging

As a company, you are given full responsibility for the amount of single use plastic you bring to market and the handling of the packaging until end-of-life. It involves:

  • Administrative and legal responsibility (documentation requirements and labelling).
  • Economic responsibility (companies to finance costs for logistics, sorting, recycling, registration.
  • Practical/physical (sorting in material types, collecting, recycling).
  • Clean-up responsibility (You must finance a share of the public cleaning costs for collection, clean-up and disposal, respectively)

Single-use Plastic products, whis are also packaging will face to different fees:

1) Fee as plastic packaging following the rules in the Packaging legislation

2) Clean-up fee following the price per kilo set by the authorities and which can be seen on the Danish EPA’s web site here.

Reporting and payment

Every quarter, the registered companies report the quantities of single use plastics, broken down by category, that they have marketed. The first report to the DPA is marketed quantities for the first quarter of 2025. These must be reported in the period 1-10 April 2025 in the producer responsibility register.
Type 1-5 above must be reported in weight and type 6-8 as number of pieces.

In 2025, producers registered in the producer responsibility register will be charged an annual fee by the DPA to cover the DPA’s administrative costs. We do not currently know the amount of the fee, and the time of collection has not yet been determined.

Especially about labeling

Certain products made of single use plastic are subject to special rules for labelling. These are, for example:

• Filters for tobacco products
• Sanitary pads
• Wet wipes
• Drinking cups

Order banning the marketing of certain disposable plastic products, etc. and on requirements for certain other single-use plastic products

Contact us regarding the extended producer responsibility for packaging + SUP

With European Recycling Platform you are in safe hands:

  • Existing collective scheme in DK within WEEE and Batteries since 2005
  • Many years of experience with producer responsibility for packaging in other countries
  • Largest global network of experts under one roof in producer responsibility
  • One contact person across countries for all your producer responsibilities (WEEE, batteries, packaging, SUP, fishing gear, textiles)
  • Strong and solid owner (Landbell Group) with global coverage
  • Large scale, which ensures efficiency in administrative and practical waste treatment, where the recycling rate is high and as much product and packaging as possible is reused.
  • Cooperation exclusively with approved partners (logistics, reuse, recycling)

Make it easy and simple

As a collective scheme, European Recycling Platform (ERP) handles producer responsibility on your behalf, so you can concentrate on your core business.

Recycling Process

  1. Collection
  2. Separation
  3. Decoating (if coated)
  4. Melting
  5. Casting
  6. Manufacture

Recycling Process

  1. Collection
  2. Treatment (including sorting, cleaning and decontamination)
  3. Crushing and melting
  4. Manufacture

Recycling Process

  1. Collection
  2. Processing (including de-inking, cleaning and screening)
  3. Manufacture

Recycling Process

  1. Collection
  2. Compacting
  3. Melting
  4. Casting
  5. Rolling
  6. Manufacture

Recycling Process

  1. Collection
  2. Sorting and separation
  3. Shredding
  4. Treatment
  5. Manufacture

Recycling Process

  1. Collection
  2. Segregation
  3. Decontamination
  4. Production
  5. Final products

Simplification and efficiency. We have one point of contact across EMEA. The learnings from one market can be applied to other markets. It’s a benefit to have a common approach, a centralised point of contact which brings efficiency and cost savings.

Ramon Teixido
WW TBO Transformation Strategist, HP Inc.

Single use plastic types

You will find a description of each type below:

Food containers
Containers such as boxes, with or without lids, for foodstuffs, such as
a) is intended for immediate consumption either at the point of sale or as takeaway,
b) typically consumed from the container and
c) is ready to be consumed without further preparation, e.g. frying, boiling or heating, including food containers used for fast food or other meals which are ready for immediate consumption, except beverage containers, plates and packaging bags and foils containing food.

Wrapping bags and foils made of flexible material to contain food intended for immediate consumption from the wrapping bag or foil without further preparation.

Beverage containers with a capacity of up to three litres, i.e. containers used to contain a liquid, such as drinking bottles, including capsules and lids therefor, and composite packaging for beverages, including capsules and lids therefor. However, not glass or metal beverage containers that have plastic caps and lids.

Beverage containers, covered by the legislation on deposit systems and collection etc. of packaging for certain beverages are exempt.

Drinking cups, including capsules and lids for these.

Plastic carrier bags with a wall thickness of less than 50 microns, as defined in Article 3, No. 1c, of the EU Parliament and Council Directive on packaging and packaging waste.

Pre-moistened wipes for personal care and household use.

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Oversættelsesresultater

Oversættelsen

Excluding balloons for industrial or other commercial use and uses not distributed to consumers.

 

Tobacco products with filters that are single use plastic products and filters that are single use plastic products marketed for use in combination with tobacco products.
You can read more about filters for tobacco products here.