Implementation of Packaging EPR by 2025 in Denmark

Implementation of Packaging EPR by 2025 in Denmark

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Starting on January 1st, 2025, extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging will come into effect in Denmark. This means that producers will be held accountable for the costs associated with recycling packaging. Denmark has already established a legal framework despite being the last European country to implement the EU Packaging Directive on EPR. A draft consultation for the Statutory Packaging Order is expected in 2023. In September 2022, the Danish Parliament approved a political agreement on EPR for packaging and single-use plastic products, marking a significant shift in the financing system from citizen-funded to producer-funded.


Under the new rules, producers will need to reimburse municipalities for household collection and sorting. Their financial contributions to collective programs will be adjusted to discourage excessive packaging and encourage the use of recycled content, reusable, or recyclable packaging. According to the Danish Ministry of Environment, EPR will impact 41,000 companies. Furthermore, fees for cleaning up single-use plastic litter will also be established.


To ease the administrative burden on producers with small packaging quantities, the political agreement set a threshold of 8 tons of packaging. Producers below this threshold are still subject to producer responsibility costs for waste management, but they must provide less information about their packaging. The threshold will be re-evaluated in 2027.


Producers can comply individually or collectively by joining schemes that organize packaging waste treatment. Collective packaging schemes must cover all packaging materials and operate at a national level. In addition, the Danish Producer Responsibility System, which currently oversees the producer registry for electronic and battery waste, will be extended to include producer registration and reporting/data collection for packaging.


The political agreement emphasizes the importance of determining which business in the value chain has the most significant influence on packaging design to place producer responsibility appropriately.


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Les Griffith - Speakers

Business Development Director
RLGA

Les Griffith is currently the Business Development Director at RLGA and is tasked with expanding the company’s data management offerings for packaging EPR in the Americas. Les has over 30 years of industry experience in Environmental Services, Extended Producer Responsibility and Reverse Distribution. Les has spent these last 30 years working with organizations to develop progressively more sustainable solutions to the management of end-of-life materials. Prior to joining RLG, Les spent eleven years at Covanta most recently serving as the Business Development Director for the Healthcare Solutions division. His group covered North and Central America and specialized in providing a suite of services to healthcare PROs, take-back services to retail pharmacy and law enforcement and environmental services to the healthcare sector and reverse distributors. Prior to Covanta Les spent 10 years at Waste Management Inc. as an Area Manager for their Healthcare Solutions group.

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Andriana Kontovrakis - Speakers

Director of Compliance Services
RLG

Andriana Kontovrakis is the Director of Compliance Services for Reverse Logistics Group’s US team.  She manages a team responsible for ensuring manufacturer and retailer customer compliance with EPR laws for electronics, batteries, packaging, household hazardous wastes, and other consumer products across the US. Along with RLG partner the Household and Commercial Products Association, she is spearheading the development of the Household Product Stewardship Alliance, a stewardship organization forming under the guidelines of Vermont’s HHW EPR law.  Prior to working with RLG, she was a Policy Analyst with the global electronics recycler Sims Lifecycle Solutions where she managed programmatic implementation and customer and supplier accounts for the US EPR compliance unit and the Deputy Director for Waste Prevention for the NYC Department of Sanitation.

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