Sweden packaging fees 2026 (Näringslivets Producentansvar, NPA)
Sweden charges 7.7× more per kg for steel packaging - compatible with material recycling than for glass packaging - compatible with material recycling (2026). Basis: Steel packaging - compatible with material recycling · Glass packaging - compatible with material recycling
How fees are set
Näringslivets Producentansvar (NPA) — Approved producer responsibility organisation for packaging under Förordning (2022:1274); one of two approved organisations and the dominant one, supervised by Naturvårdsverket.
Sweden reorganised packaging producer responsibility in 2022, and collection is now run by approved producer responsibility organisations under municipal coordination. Two are approved — NPA and TMResponsibility — and NPA, owned by the business federations, is the dominant one and the one that publishes a national fee schedule. Fees are charged per kilogram by item number and split into private use, which is the household stream shown on this page, and packaging other than private use, which is charged at a fraction of the household rate. Within each material the fee is graded by whether the packaging is compatible with material recycling: paper, plastic and the other main materials each carry a compatible rate and one or two higher rates for partially or non-compatible packaging. One published sheet carries three effective dates — the fees from 1 January 2026, the revision from 1 April 2026 that raised wood, textile, ceramic and other-material packaging from 13.70 to 15.70 SEK/kg, and the fees NPA decided on 8 June 2026 for 1 January 2027. Swedish fees are published in kronor and this site does not convert them.
Declaration basis: SEK per kg by item number, split into private use and other than private use. Official rates page: npa.se ↗
Rates
| Material / item | As published | Conditions | Effective | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper packaging - compatible with material recycling | 6.67 SEK/kg | Compatible with material recycling | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Paper packaging - partially or not compatible with material recycling | 9.65 SEK/kg | Partially or not compatible with material recycling | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Plastic packaging - compatible with material recycling | 13.4 SEK/kg | Compatible with material recycling | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Plastic packaging - partially compatible with material recycling | 18.02 SEK/kg | Partially compatible with material recycling | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Plastic packaging - not compatible with material recycling | 19.56 SEK/kg | Not compatible with material recycling | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Aluminium packaging - compatible with material recycling | 12.59 SEK/kg | Compatible with material recycling | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Steel packaging - compatible with material recycling | 21.49 SEK/kg | Compatible with material recycling | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Glass packaging - compatible with material recycling | 2.8 SEK/kg | Compatible with material recycling | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Wood packaging - single-use | 15.7 SEK/kg | — | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Textile packaging | 15.7 SEK/kg | — | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Ceramic packaging | 15.7 SEK/kg | — | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
| Packaging of other materials | 15.7 SEK/kg | — | 2026-04-01 → 2026-12-31 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-25 official |
ᴮ bonus / discount · ᴹ malus / surcharge. Fees are graded by whether the packaging is compatible with material recycling. Sweden has two approved producer responsibility organisations; NPA is the dominant one and publishes this national schedule. Fees for packaging other than private use are a separate schedule.
Commercial and industrial packaging
The rates below are a different stream from the household packaging rates above. They apply to commercial, industrial and transport packaging — packaging that does not reach a private household and is not collected by the municipal system — and a producer placing both kinds of packaging on this market is liable under both schedules, not one. Where the scheme publishes both in the same document the material names are the scheme's own, so the same material code can appear in both tables with very different figures.
NPA — Producer responsibility organisation; fees decided by the NPA board under Forordning (2022:1274).
NPA sets one fee schedule per packaging item number, split into a private-use series and an 'Other than for private use' series. The non-household series is far cheaper for paper and metals, because household packaging carries the cost of municipal kerbside collection, but more expensive for glass. The sheet decided on 2026-06-08 carries both the 2026 and the 2027 columns.
Declaration basis: SEK per kg, by item number in the 'Other than for private use' series. Official rates page: npa.se ↗
| Material / item | As published | Conditions | Effective | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper packaging — Compatible with material recycling | 0.01 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Paper packaging — Partially or not compatible with material recycling | 0.05 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Plastic packaging — Compatible with material recycling | 0.1 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Plastic packaging — In systems for reuse | 0.05 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Plastic packaging — Partially or not compatible with material recycling | 10.55 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Aluminium packaging — Compatible with material recycling | 0.01 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Steel packaging — Compatible with material recycling | 0.01 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Glass packaging — Compatible with material recycling | 6.7 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Wood packaging — Single-use | 2.5 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Wood packaging — In systems for reuse | 0.05 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Textile packaging | 0.23 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Ceramic packaging | 0.23 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
| Packaging of other materials | 0.23 SEK/kg | Packaging other than for private use, placed on the Swedish market | 2026-01-01 | admin.npa.se ↗ 2026-08-26 official |
Rates are shown exactly as the scheme publishes them, in the scheme's own unit — the household-to-commercial comparison only holds where both are published in the same unit. These rows are not in the free sample.csv; bulk and historical access is on the pricing page.
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Provenance
Method version 1.5.0 · snapshots taken 2026-08-26
- https://admin.npa.se/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Packaging-fees-2026-and-2027-version-20260608-01-ENG.pdf
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How to cite
EPR Rates (2026). Sweden Packaging Fees 2026 (NPA) — SEK/kg by material. https://eprrates.com/sweden/2026/ · Retrieved 2026-08-27. CC BY 4.0.
@misc{eprratessweden2026,
title = {Sweden Packaging Fees 2026 (NPA) — SEK/kg by material},
author = {{EPR Rates}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://eprrates.com/sweden/2026/},
note = {Retrieved 2026-08-27. CC BY 4.0}
}
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