Deposit return and property-based collection

Since 1 January 2024, municipalities have been responsible for the collection of household bio- and packaging waste. This means that municipalities must arrange for all homes to have collection of food or kitchen waste, as well as paper, plastic, glass and metal packaging close to the home, so-called property-based collection (FNI). The concept of property-based collection is new and is found in both the Waste Ordinance and the Packaging Ordinance.

By 1 January 2027, municipalities must have implemented a system for property-based collection of packaging waste. The main rule is that packaging waste and food or kitchen waste must be collected from the property where a household has waste or where the waste is produced.

Every year, municipalities must produce easily accessible information for households and for the co-located businesses that have chosen municipal collection. Approved producer responsibility organizations - in the case of deposit packaging, this is us - should be given the opportunity to provide comments on the information before it is made available to households, businesses and the public. Returpack sees a potential risk that more consumers will place deposit bottles and cans in the new collection containers for plastic and metal, instead of depositing them in the deposit machine, as recycling moves closer to home.