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Companies are responsible for their packaging

In Finland, there is legislation on producer responsibility, which means that producers are required to organize the waste management of the products they place on the market and cover the costs incurred. Producers are those who package their own products as well as importers of packaged products. The easiest way for producers to fulfil their producer responsibility is to join a producer organisation.

When a company joins the producer responsibility system, it transfers its collection and recycling obligations to the producer organisation. There are only two things left for the company itself to do:

• Reporting packaging data

• Paying producer responsibility fees based on the reported packaging data
  

Sumi is responsible for the collection and recycling of glass, metal, plastic, paper, cardboard and wood packaging in Finland.

Distance selling (E-commerce)

Foreign online stores must join a producer organization if they sell products directly to Finland via distance selling. The producer responsibility transfer agreement with Sumi can also be made by the operator of an e-commerce platform, an entity equivalent to a producer, or an authorized representative appointed by one of the above.

Why choose Sumi Oy?

• We only use domestic recycling partners

• We cost-efficiently manage the legally required functions for fulfilling producer responsibility obligations and meeting recycling targets

• We bring innovation to the entire producer responsibility sector

• We secure the availability of recycled raw material for Finnish industry by using only domestic sorting partners

• We aim, in line with the Finnish Government Programme, to increase the self-sufficiency of the circular economy

• Through our partner network, you can also arrange producer responsibility transfer agreements internationally

• We offer our customers, among other things, free recycling coach services, and on our website you will find the industry’s most advanced AI, which you can ask anything related to producer responsibility