About this initiative
This platform is an initiative of Valipac, whose basic mission is to provide a collective response to the Extended Producer Responsibility for commercial and industrial packaging.
Our areas of action
In parallel to this mission, Valipac has set itself the objective of achieving circularity for commercial and industrial packaging by acting on 4 areas of action:
- Increasing recycling
- Ensuring traceability to guarantee recycling
- Stimulate local recycling
- Promoting recyclability and circularity
We have been investing in research and innovation projects over the past few years aimed at increasing the demand for recycled material in Europe.
In collaboration with our partners, we have demonstrated the feasibility of creating shrink hoods made from 50% post-consumer recycled material. More recently, we have demonstrated the same feasibility for stretch films made from 25% post-consumer recycled material.
Why a bonus?
With this 50€/tonne bonus, we are boosting supply and demand at the same time and encouraging the integration of recycled material in commercial and industrial plastic packaging.
The bonus applies to goods put on the Belgian market between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022. It will be paid in 2023 in the form of a discount on the amount of Valipac’s invoice for the 2022 annual declaration. The bonus is not granted automatically. In addition to their traditional declaration, the customers concerned will have to submit a separate declaration of the quantities of commercial and industrial plastic packaging made from recycled content put on the Belgian market.
