Recycling fees

Plastic packaging (€/kg, VAT 0%)

Metal packaging (€/kg, VAT 0%)

Glass packaging (€/kg, VAT 0%)

Wood packaging (€/kg, VAT 0%)

2. Recycling fees, light declaration form

 This price list is applicable also to the declaration form for cups sold empty to end-users (companies that report with the light declaration form).

Please note that as a small producer you can report your packaging data on either the light declaration form or the detailed declaration form!
Your choice of form may have an impact on the amount of your recycling fees.

Light declaration form, small producer under 50 000kg/year (€/kg, VAT 0%)

3. Company service fee

The company service fee covers statutory producer registrations, customer service for companies, reporting and invoicing costs, and other administrative expenses. For large producers whose packaging volumes amount to several tonnes, this fee is weight-based up to a maximum threshold. Small producers are charged a minimum fee.

Company service fee (VAT 0%)

4. Registration fee

The registration fee covers contractual costs and the establishment of customer accounts in our systems, and is therefore charged only once.

Registration fee (VAT 0%)

5. Late reporting fees

If a company returns a reporting form after the due date, the company will be charged a late reporting fee per form.

Amount of the fee if the return of the form is up to one month late

• 10% of the recycling or SUP fees charged for the late form.
• Company reporting once a year: minimum charge of €10 and maximum charge of €900 per late form.
• A company that reports quarterly: A minimum fee of €2.5 and a maximum fee of €225 per late form.

If the return of the form is more than one month late, but no more than two months after the due date, the fee described above is doubled.

If the return of the form is more than two months late, the fee is tripled.

If reporting is delayed by more than three months after the due date of the form, in addition to the late fees mentioned above, producer responsibility fees will be charged on an estimated basis based on the historical packaging data available.

5. SUP fees 2024

SUP (Single-Use Packaging) producers will also be charged a separate SUP fee to cover the statutory cleaning, litter prevention and information costs of municipalities. SUP fees are always invoiced retroactively for the previous year.

2025 SUP charges for packaging will be published in autumn 2026, after the 2025 data have been reported by companies and sufficiently verified.

Recycling fees for previous years

2024 was the first full year of operation for Sumi as a producer organization of all packaging materials. In the price lists published before 2023, Sumi has only been included for recycling fees for plastic packaging.