Obligation to Provide Recovery and Recycling
The Act on the Obligations of Businesses Regarding the Management of Certain Types of Waste, and on Product and Deposit Fees, imposes on every entity introducing on the market products in packaging, an obligation to provide recovery and recycling of waste of the same type as the packaging. In the regulation issued on the basis of the above act, mininal levels of recovery and recycling has been determined:
|
No. |
Packaging Waste |
Level in % |
|
|
|
Type of Packaging |
Recovery |
Recycling |
|
1 |
total packaging |
61 |
56 |
|
2 |
plastic packaging |
– |
23.5 |
|
3 |
aluminium packaging |
– |
51 |
|
4 |
steell packaging and other packaging made of other metals |
– |
51 |
|
5 |
paper packaging |
– |
61 |
|
6 |
glass packaging |
– |
61 |
|
7 |
wood packaging |
– |
16 |
|
8 |
multi-material packaging |
– |
levels determined according to Art. 25 sec. 4 |
|
9 |
other packaging |
– |
– |
As you can see above, ratio of total recycled waste weight in the given year to the total weight of the packaging introduced onto the market, should amount to 56%. Other numbers are for particular types of packaging. For not achieving the above limits, there is an obligation to pay a product fee calculated according to the rules determined in the act.
The obligation to provide recovery and recycling may be fulfilled in two ways – by the company itself or by cooperation with an organization of the packaging recovery. Despite more expensive, the second option seems to be more comfortable.
In order to be able to verify fulfilling the above obligation, every company introducing onto the market products in packagings, has to register on paper or electronically, weight of packaging introduced onto the market in the given year. The registry has to be kept five years after the end of the calendar year.
