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Plastic from industry

Approximately 75 per cent of all plastic from packaging collected in Norway through Grønt Punkt Norge is generated by trade and industry sectors. This used packaging tends to be much cleaner and more homogeneous than waste packaging from households, making possible more efficient and less costly sorting and return systems and routines.

Grønt Punkt Norge has agreements with more than 120 collectors of plastic packaging from these sectors. The collectors are required to handle all types of plastic packaging from this source and ensure that it is sent on to recycling or recovery. Grønt Punkt Norge in turn guarantees that collectors achieve a minimum volume of plastic packaging that is sent to material recycling. With a view to cost-efficiency, and because the recycling of different types of packaging requires different processes, Grønt Punkt Norge divided plastic packaging from trade and industry sectors into the following fractions: "foil", "hard plastic packaging", "PP-bags" and "energy". Additional fractions such as "EPS (Styrofoam)" and "packaging for hazardous materials" are regulated via separate agreements.

Read more about the recycling of plastic packaging at: http://www.epro-plasticsrecycling.org/