What does producer responsibility for single-use plastic cost?
Here is the full overview of what producer responsibility for single-use plastic costs, who the money goes to, and when the payments fall due.
When do you pay?
What you pay, and to whom
The price of extended producer responsibility for single-use plastic consists of a registration fee and an annual operating fee to DPA (Dansk Producentansvar), membership with your PRO, and a clean-up fee covering municipal and state clean-up.
Single-use plastic has no environmental contribution and no de minimis threshold, and reporting is quarterly instead of annual. Below we go through the payments one at a time.
Registration with DPA
All producers must be registered in the Danish producer register (Producentregistret, at DPA) before the products are made available on the Danish market. DPA (Dansk Producentansvar) runs the register where your company is registered and where your volumes are reported.
The registration fee is paid once and goes directly to DPA. You pay DKK 1,000 to register including your first product area, and DKK 500 for each further area. We help you all the way through pre-registration, including the fiddly MitID approval.
The annual operating fee from DPA is calculated on the volume of single-use plastic you reported. For small volumes you pay the minimum fee of DKK 250 per year.
Read about DPA
DKK 1,000
to register with DPA including your first product area. Further areas cost DKK 500 each. Paid once.
~DKK 0.12/kg
in annual operating fee to DPA (2025 rate), calculated on your annual report. Minimum DKK 250 per year.
Membership and environmental contribution with us
Membership with us costs from DKK 795 per year per product area.
Instead of an environmental contribution you pay a clean-up fee, which covers the municipal and state clean-up of single-use plastic. The authority sets a rate per product category and charges quarterly. The rates vary widely, from DKK 0.61 per kg for beverage containers to DKK 8.26 per kg for beverage cups, and for balloons, wet wipes and tobacco filters they are calculated per unit.
The membership is Emballage Indberetning own price, while the registration fee, the operating fee and the clean-up fee are set by the register and the authorities.
As a member you report your volumes to us every quarter, by 10 January, 10 April, 10 July and 10 October. We take care of the onward reporting and invoice all fees together.
Emballage IndberetningEnvironmental contribution: does not apply
No environmental contribution for single-use plastic. You pay the clean-up fee instead.
All amounts on this page are excl. VAT.
The clean-up fee depends on the product category
The authority sets a rate per product category and charges quarterly. The rates vary widely, from DKK 0.61 per kg for beverage containers to DKK 8.26 per kg for beverage cups, and for balloons, wet wipes and tobacco filters they are calculated per unit. Book a calland we will work it out for your specific products and volumes.
Questions about the prices for single-use plastic
Shall we work out your price?
Book a call and we will work out your total costs for your specific products and volumes. No obligation, and it takes 20 minutes.
