KIDV Recycle Check rigid plastic packaging
The Recycle Check is a support tool for one of the many choices that packaging designers, but also marketers and buyers have to make if they bring a new product or packaging on the market. The user is asked a brief number of questions about all sorts of material and packaging components that can influence sorting and recycling. Additional information for each question is provided in the background document.
At the end the packaging gets a rating: optimal, reasonable, limited or non-recyclable. KIDV also gives background information for each question, that deals with different aspects of sorting and recycling.
The latest update of the KIDV Recycle Check Rigid Plastic Packaging (version 2024) was published in December 2023.
Users are asked a brief number of questions about the material and packaging components that affect sorting and recycling. For each question, additional information is provided in the background document. At the end the packaging is scored on recyclability, from optimal (green) to yellow (reasonable), orange (limited) and finally red (non-recyclable).
Fee modulation
Packaging that scores “optimal” in the recycle check is deemed “well recyclable” and can apply for fee modulation from Verpact. Companies with packaging designs that are recyclable pay a lower waste management fee. In the 2023 Declaration, PET trays and other thermoformed packaging were exempt from a lower waste management fee. This has changed for the 2024 rates; now all types of properly recyclable packaging are eligible for fee modulation.
Do you have questions about fee modulation? Then please contact Verpact.
Other KIDV Recycle Checks
The KIDV has also developed Recycle Checks for flexible plastic packaging and for many other forms of packaging, click here for an overview.
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