If your company brings packaging into the Swedish market, you are an obligated packaging producer and must ensure that the packaging is collected and recycled. Producer responsibility is a statutory obligation.
If you are affiliated with FTI, you are complying with your obligation to collect your packaging materials. If you are an obligated packaging producer, we can tell you what you need to do, how we can help, and answer any other important questions.
90 %
of all packaging in Sweden is collected by FTI.
“FTI is an extended arm for us to ensure the possibility of recycling of used packaging.”
Maria Wiland,
Business Developer, Zekler Safety AB
The basic idea of producer responsibility is to minimize packaging waste, and to ensure that any waste that does occur is recycled and used to make new products. FTI handles 90 percent of all collected packaging in Sweden.
Your company has producer responsibility if you:
You are not required to report packaging that is exported to other countries (both within and outside the EU).
You must ensure that the packaging is collected, removed, recycled or re-used in an environmentally friendly manner.
Every year, you are required to report the amount of packaging you have placed on the market, and how the collected volumes were handled, to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). That also applies to composite packaging, i.e. packaging made from two or more different materials.
You are required to pay an annual supervisory fee to the EPA.
FTI has existed since the Swedish Regulation on Producer Responsibility for Packaging was introduced. We can provide the support you need. Our nationwide collection scheme for your packaging complies with your legal obligations as a producer. We collect plastic, paper, metal and glass.
Recycling should be equal. Agreements should be transparent and fair. That’s why all producers who are affiliated with us pay the same amount for their packaging. No secret agreements or fees. You pay (ex VAT):
Minimum total amount per company (annual fee + packaging fees): SEK 2,000 per year
To avoid a situation where all stores, catering services, restaurants, pizzerias, hot dog stands, pastry shops, laundries, banks, offices, growers, berry pickers, egg producers, etc. must become affiliated with us because they provide point-of-sale packaging, FTI charges a fee for those players who produce or import their actual packaging.
Your company has producer responsibility if you:
No. In order to avoid that all stores, catering services, restaurants, pizzerias, hot dog stands, pastry shops, laundries, offices, growers, berry pickers, egg producers and more should become affiliated with us because they provide a point-of-sale packaging, special conditions are applied, in accordance with current legislation. These packages are filled at the time of sale and are called service packages. Common for them is that they are reported by the packaging manufacturer or importer. For other packaging, it is always the filler that has the producer responsibility and must report the packaging. Service packaging
Yes. You are an obligated packaging producer regardless of whether the product or packaging is from an EU or non-EU country.
